Tag: Naples

• July 13, 2017

  The Plow-Zone

  The past couple of weeks have been quite busy at Aeclanum. My trench (Saggio 8) received two, bright eyed, bushy tailed new participants who were eager to dive deep into all the mysteries that the archaeology of Aeclanum holds. What are those mysteries? In case you missed my post from the last block, our trench’s…
• July 2, 2017

  Charles IV, a couple Alpine border crossings, and a quagmire of red tape.

  Well everybody, it’s been a long time coming but the field season is finally here (and after too much delay, the first blog post of the season as well!). I’m finally in the field…digging. There is a verifiable amount of dirt on my trowel so it’s official! It has (quite literally) been a long road…
• June 10, 2016

  The Field Season Commences (kind of)!

  This week,the team of students and archaeologists (myself included) from the Apolline Project commenced their first activities in the field for this summer. Work-wise, it was a fairly mild week due to permit delays for our excavation in Pollena; we spent most of our time shuffling through the ever-important excavation documentation from the lastseason to assist in…
• June 2, 2016

  Arriving in Pollena

  Yesterday, I made my way to the first project I will be participating in this summer, the Apolline Project, located outside of Naples, Italy (specifically, the town of Pollena Trocchia). I flew with Meridiana Air and I must admit I got everything I paid for (which is to say not much). Thanks to Google Flights,…