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Landing site for invasions of Britain in 55 and 54 BC pinpointed
Daily Mail ^ | 29 November 2017 | Colin Fernandez and Harry Pettit

Posted on 11/29/2017 8:50:07 AM PST by mairdie

Archaeologists have pinpointed an obscure spot in Kent as the scene of the first encounter between Rome and ancient Britons.

Pegwell Bay on the Isle of Thanet is believed to be where Caesar first attempted to land in 55 BC, and later more successfully in 54 BC.

Now the site is more than half a mile inland - but at the time it was closer to the coast.

The location matches Caesar's own account as it was visible from the sea with a large open bay and was overlooked by higher ground.

His army immediately built a fort on the spot, and the researchers, from the University of Leicester, claim to have found the spot where it was built.

Iron weapons, including a Roman javelin, and pottery dug up at the neighbouring hamlet of Ebbsfleet overlooking the bay suggests it was a Roman base dating to the first century BC. ...

Julius Caesar's own account of his first landing in Britain - an unsuccessful invasion in 54 BC - backs the new study.

Sailing from somewhere between Boulogne and Calais, Caesar says that at sunrise they saw Britain far away on the left hand side.

As they set sail opposite the cliffs of Dover, Caesar describes the white chalk cliffs around Ramsgate, which were illuminated by the rising sun.

He says the ships were left at anchor at an even and open shore and describes how they were damaged by a great storm.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: britain; caesar; ebbsfleet; godsgravesglyphs; juliuscaesar; romanempire; thanet
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To: mairdie
I'm saving this. I use ancient text as further proof of global climate change hoax. The best grapes in Caesar's time were grown in Normandy and Southern Britain! That means it was HOT...and the water was WAY higher!

Look at Thermopylae...its a mile inland too!

21 posted on 11/29/2017 10:06:21 AM PST by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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To: DCBryan1

That’s extremely clever.


22 posted on 11/29/2017 10:08:41 AM PST by mairdie
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To: blam

But not in danger of tilting over, we all hope.


23 posted on 11/29/2017 10:09:27 AM PST by mairdie
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To: mairdie
Landing site for invasions of Britain in 55 and 54 BC pinpointed

Someone's going to get their pee-pee slapped over that one.

24 posted on 11/29/2017 10:12:43 AM PST by ex91B10
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To: ex91B10

Because it’s not PC? I always change dates back to AD and BC when I can.


25 posted on 11/29/2017 10:16:19 AM PST by mairdie
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To: mairdie
"But not in danger of tilting over, we all hope."

Ha, Ha.

Hank Johnson

26 posted on 11/29/2017 10:27:17 AM PST by blam
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To: Lurkinanloomin
"Who had the SUVs that caused that?"

It was those damn "Bring Out Your Dead" carts, and the horses that pulled them.

27 posted on 11/29/2017 10:27:20 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: mairdie

Carry on Cleo (1964) , his square wheels were a big hit as windows


28 posted on 11/29/2017 10:40:37 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: mairdie
" Landing site for invasions of Britain in 55 and 54 BC pinpointed"

Was Horeoldo embedded??

29 posted on 11/29/2017 10:43:06 AM PST by crazy scenario ( )
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To: mairdie
That thou wilt use the wars as thy redress, and not as our confusion, all thy powers shall make their harbour in our town, till we have seal'd thy full desire.

30 posted on 11/29/2017 10:52:25 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: mairdie
"Landing site for invasions of Britain in 55 and 54 BC pinpointed"

SHHHH!!!


31 posted on 11/29/2017 11:47:52 AM PST by BlueLancer (ANTIFA - The new and improved SturmAbteilung)
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To: SES1066

Or the area silted-in. One of the reasons archeologists argued over the location of ancient Troy was that a river silted in the curved shoreline mentioned by Homer.


32 posted on 11/29/2017 11:56:37 AM PST by Tallguy (Twitter short-circuits common sense. Please engage your brain before tweeting.)
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To: BlueLancer

Very clever.


33 posted on 11/29/2017 11:58:13 AM PST by mairdie
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To: SunkenCiv

It has always been interesting to me how the Roman influence did not last in Britain as it did in, say, France. The English words of Latin origin came from French, brought by the Normans. I suppose it speaks to the completeness of the Saxon conquest.


34 posted on 11/29/2017 12:43:06 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: SunkenCiv

Such a great find!

Thanks for the ping.


35 posted on 11/29/2017 1:21:44 PM PST by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go. Dump McConnman, too.)
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To: mairdie

So do I. Resistance!


36 posted on 11/30/2017 8:12:49 AM PST by ex91B10
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