Young Archaeologists in the Pandemic

 It's now four years since the Covid pandemic hit the world and even today, Colchester Young Archaeologists' Club received an apology from a member suffering from the most recent variant. That was no deterrent to the rest of us. In Colchester Castle Museum is an exact replica of a druid's grave excavated in 1996 by Colchester Archaeological Trust. Colchester YACs eagerly identified the medical instruments, the forceps, the tweezers, the razor and scalpel. We had brought one of our sets of the game Aquila, which was devised by Alex Jones, who based it on the one excavated in the druid's grave in 1996. A YAC familiar with Aquila carefully replicated the strategy of the game interred, on our board with our counters.    We also explored the vaults supporting the podium of the Temple of Claudius and found out how they came to be hidden and obscured by the Norman castle for centuries until 1919, when archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler identified them. Wheeler compared them to the