Vindolanda from afar.













At Vindolandia. The wall was designed to keep out those peoples who were 'differently civilized'.












Wall. glorious wall.













A granary at Houseteads fort.














Cattle block my way to a Mithraic Temple. Mithras was a Persian solar cult, popular in the Roman army. What these cows do not know is what actually happened in a Mithraic Temple. The intiation ritual involved the spraying of a sacrificed bull's blood from above onto the willing initates.