Car Dyke [80 mile Roman canal from the River Cam to the River Witham]

EyePeterborough ^ | September 2016 | unattributed

[wildbill]

There was so much freight traffic from the port of Rome (Ostia) back and forth that there is a partially confirmed theory that they had a canal, running paralell to the Tiber so that they could run traffic one way on each.

Saw a terrific show on TV about the Port of Ostia that has been rediscovered using sattelite imagery.

[SunkenCiv]

It’s an odd thing that so much of Rome’s oldest suburb survived all the meltdown crap at the end of the western empire. Mussolini hired thousands of laborers to excavate the light layer of soil covering everything. The Roman-era port is all silted up and the estuary has moved out to sea as it were.

http://www.visitlazio.com/en/dettaglio/-/turismo/617931/porto-di-ostia-antica

http://www.google.com/search?q=port+of+ostia&spell=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&tbm=isch

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3303942/posts?page=9#9

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3072404/posts?page=14#14

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2552748/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Medieval canals spotted from air
BBC | Sunday, August 31, 2008 | unattributed
Posted on 08/31/2008 7:20:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2072133/posts

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1371966/posts?page=12#12
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3019050/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3072404/posts

From Hand-drag to Jumbo: A Millennium of Dredging
[note: this topic *should* have a post about Drusus’ canal near the Rhine mouth, but doesn’t]
IADC (International Association of Dredging Companies) | 1999 | IADC
Posted on 07/30/2004 8:27:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1181760/posts

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2072133/posts?page=4#4

[SunkenCiv]

[singing] there is a dance hall in the car dyke... whoops, that’s mardyke...

Wansdyke Links, And other Roman and Dark Ages Earthworks in Britain and Ireland
http://www.wansdyke21.org.uk/links.htm

[SunkenCiv]

Updated ping message only. I've found some older stuff today due to searching on 'canal'.

[SunkenCiv]

Map of the route of the Car Dyke. Image reproduced from Simmons, B B and Cope-Faulkner, P. 2004. The Car Dyke: Past Work, Current State and Future Possibilities. Lincolnshire Archaeology and Heritage Reports Series No 8. Fig 1 Physical remains – rural Lincolnshire

[Da_Shrimp]

Great link. I’ve walked along Car Dyke may times in the past. Beautiful, quiet and occasionally eerie as the night falls.

[SunkenCiv]

Nice!

[Bratch]

[Da_Shrimp]

Dunno if you're into Classical music, but Ralph Vaughan-Williams wrote a very evocative piece of music called 'In the Fen Country' which fits the landscape in that area very well:

In the Fen Country - some great photographs of the landscape in that video too, including some of Car Dyke.

[Da_Shrimp]

I have no idea who that is, but given the title of the thread I’m going to assume some sort of Automotive Lesbian.

[SunkenCiv]

Car Dyke Route |Jan 26, 2019 |Rex Gibson | YouTube

[SunkenCiv]

(PDF) Discerning the purpose of the Lincolnshire Car Dyke. BRIAN SIMMONS and PAUL COPE-FAULKNER, with contributions by R. PALMER and T. LANE and illustrations by D. HOPKINS, P. MATTHEW and S. UNSWORTH, THE CAR DYKE: PAST WORK, CURRENT STATE AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES (Lincolnshire Archaeology and Heritage Reports No. 8; Heritage Trust of Lincolnshire, Sleaford 2004). Pp. x + 226, ill., maps. ISBN 0948639393