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<\/p>\nWhat an amazing week attending the LIMES Congress in Nijmegen. This was my first LIMES congress, so not sure what to expect.. so here is a run down of the events and my thoughts.<\/p>\n
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Day 1 \u2013 so many talks, in so many different rooms, what an outstanding start.. so many free books, I had to rethink my packing and this was day one! One of my highlights was seeing \u2018The missing dead\u2019 session about reconstructing the past through digital games play at Roman Vindolanda.<\/a> I will be bias as a Vindolanda Trustee member but the future thinking was a great talking point with the audience.<\/p>\n Day 2 \u2013 first day trip… and I mean all day 7.30 start and back at 8pm… but what a day, when walking round the archaeological sites, Roman Castellum, Meinerswijk, Military practice camps, Uedem and Xanten-Furstenberg, before heading to LVR Archaologischen park Xanten<\/a>, at the end of the day, the exquisite and beautiful museum was just awe inspiring.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Day 3 \u2013 The day I had been waiting for, which included the organic riches session… and it didn\u2019t disappoint, chaired by Carol Van Driel-Murray and speakers including Beth Green showed the importance of understanding our artefacts, the discussion came to end with a query about impacts of climate change upon these artefacts, exactly at the right time for us to say a comment about our climate change work at the Roman site of Magna.<\/p>\n There was an evening visit to Valkhof museum, with of course some special LIMES beer<\/p>\n Day 4 \u2013 second day trip and this was an absolute highlight for me, the Roman Ship at Castellum Hoge Woerd<\/a> \u2018De Meern 1\u2019\u00a0 and the wonderful world of Archeon Museum park<\/a>,\u00a0 walking through from Mesolithic to the Romans and everything in-between. The hospitality was spectacular, and a delicious BBQ to finish the day. Have to mention the heat, at 34o\u00b0C… finding shade and heading inside as often as possible was the order of the day.<\/p>\n Day 5 \u2013 Its not the end of the week for us, Fridays talk started with churches in military outposts and a very full session with a talk from CEO Vindolanda Trust \u2013 Dr Andrew Birley.<\/p>\n Day 6 \u2013 yip still going and it is Saturday, lots of bright early starters to attend the Feeding the Frontier talks, followed by Roman Britian led by Tanja Romankiewicz, as David Breeze said during questions, \u2018exceptional\u2019 talk from Tanja \u2013 military construction strategies on the Limes: new insights from geoarcheology.<\/p>\n If I didn\u2019t mention your talk, sorry, so much to see, so many pancakes to eat..<\/p>\n Roll on Georgia, what an inclusive, friendly and engaging series of talks and events<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What an amazing week attending the LIMES Congress in Nijmegen. This was my first LIMES congress, so not sure what to expect.. so here is a run down of the events and my thoughts. Day… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\t\t\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2022\/09\/20220823_085109-1024x1024.jpg\")
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