LOOK AT ALL THE BODIES

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Archibald: Sir Archibald Fotherington-Smythe, personal diary. Day 5.
Archibald: Dearest Marjorie. Despite a false start or two, good progress is being made on the initial excavation.
Archibald: Trench 3 is already turning up some dashed interesting Roman ephemera; pottery shards, mosaic tiles and so-on and so-forth.
Archibald: Which is of course no great surprise, because - as any scholar worth his salt knows, all of this was under Rome’s thumb from about 49 AD.
Archibald: Caesar comes along - all “Render under to... Well me, actually”, and shoves the bally Greeks out of Massalia, a little to the East of here.
Archibald: Anyway - what makes this place so remarkable is it’s one, jolly great earthwork raised by neolithic tribes - a place to store their stiffs - thousands of years ago.
Archibald: Probably took those pagan devils hundreds of years, wot?
Archibald: Hmmm? Why yes Potts, I would fancy another little snifter of Sherry - most kind, most kind...
Archibald: Ahhh... Now where was I... Ah yes. Skip forward a couple of hundred years, give or take - and Lucius Ranius Optatus, the local head honcho - spots that the peasants are still hanging about the place...
Archibald: ... Venerating ancient traditions. Burning offerings to the old gods... Frolicking... naked... under the full moon, I should imagine...
Archibald: ... and... and so Optatus declares “No More! No more, I say!”, levels the top of the mound, builds a shrine and his own tomb - complete with his own phizog cast in copper...
Archibald: ... and has his legionnaires round up the locals, demanding they worship him as a living god.
Archibald: So - when they say “We’d rather not, old boy”, he butchers them, then sends his men down into the depths of the earthwork, to desecrate everything they can lay their hands on.
Archibald: Utterly rum show.
Archibald: Now... Here’s the thing... In trench 5, up in Optatus’s tomb? We’ve only gone and bally well found evidence of those executions, haven’t we?
Archibald: In the coming days, I am confident we’ll uncover the path the Romans took into the depths, and thence... The very Sentinel Artifact itself!