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THE ARCHAEOLOGISTName Date

You are an archaeologist, working on the Antonine Wall. You are very excited because you’ve discovered some pieces of carved stones which you think might be two of the special distance slabs which showed who built each section of the wall.

A) Can you try and join up these pieces to make two stones?

Stick them together in these frames to make the stones complete again.

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B) Well done! Now you have to work out what you’ve found. Look at the pictures. Can you find these things? Draw a line to each.

A tied-up enemy

LEG II = Second Legion

A soldier holding the ‘standard’

A priest making an offering to

the gods

VEX LEG XX = Twentieth

Legion

A Roman horseman

A bull, a sheep and a pig

© Hunterian Museum

© Hunterian Museum

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C) In the space below, describe one of the things that you think is happening in the pictures.

D) In pairs, work as an interviewer and an archaeologist for a TV or newspaper report. Explain what you have found, and why you think it is important.

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