5th March 2008, 10:31 AM
From the limited excavations that I have worked on I have not come across a single spear or piece of armour for the romans. What they seemed to have in incredible amounts, and that doest seem to be repeated until the Victorians come up with blue and white ware, is crockery. The roman sites are positively dripping with it and if the site is not positively dripping with crockery it aint roman and possibly some poor local tribe trying to be like the romans. Whether the romans were using the crockery in the suggested massacres I would not like to say. It is all mainly broken which probably resulted from violent impacts. I suspect that it was mainly used to feed people although it could have been in a big feast after or even before the massacre. There have been some recent excavations on the north side of the Humber that have found a remarkable number of complete roman pots placed in ditches. They could have been put there in readiness for an ambush that never happened.