SHHHH!!!
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 ...
Look at Thermopylae...its a mile inland too!
That’s extremely clever.
But not in danger of tilting over, we all hope.
Someone's going to get their pee-pee slapped over that one.
Because it’s not PC? I always change dates back to AD and BC when I can.
Ha, Ha.
It was those damn "Bring Out Your Dead" carts, and the horses that pulled them.
Carry on Cleo (1964) , his square wheels were a big hit as windows
Was Horeoldo embedded??
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.
SHHHH!!!
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.
Very clever.
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.
Such a great find!
Thanks for the ping.
So do I. Resistance!
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