That may or may not be true. Such weighty matters, I believe, should be left with a panel of experts.
After all, even a King was having difficulty with that one.
Posted on 09/04/2023 5:04:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists have discovered evidence of Roman and Anglo-Saxon fortifications in the town of Chepstow in the United Kingdom. Surprisingly, however, the town was also home to an ancient bridge that connected England and Wales before the formation of the two countries.
Archaeologists discovered the wooden structure while looking for evidence in the shadow of a 950-year-old Norman castle on a muddy bank on the Wye riverbank. Known as the gateway to Wales, Chepstow is a border town steeped in history.
This wooden structure – believed to have been built by the Romans 2,000 years ago – was found preserved in mud following a race against time to uncover it during an ‘extreme low tide event’...
Archaeologists had just a two-hour window to dig it out and had to be assisted by specialist rescue teams because of the perilous nature of their task.
The ancient crossing links a route between Wales and England from around half a mile upstream of Chepstow to the village of Tutshill in Gloucestershire. It served as a vital link between these regions for centuries, long before modern transportation networks existed.
Experts from CAS were given assistance by members of the Severn Area Rescue Association (SARA).
Discovery was chanced upon by the Chepstow-based archaeology team due to a fortuitous 2-hour ‘extreme low tide event’. Due to the tidal event, these ‘upright timbers’ were located in a tidal pool just off the riverbed.
“Excavating around these we were able to expose very substantial timbers and beautiful joints that are probably part of an original pier and cutwater. We took timber samples for dendrochronological and possible Carbon-14 dating, but until the results come back, we won’t know for sure the period of the structure,” added Maddison.
(Excerpt) Read more at arkeonews.net ...
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btt!
That wasn't about Montana suing the city of San Francisco for flooding his home with sewage, was it? I saw your post, and just saw this article about his lawsuit:
Very interesting find.
It still can’t carry a coconut.
Busted, Guilty. ;O(
Bedivere: How do we tell if SHE is made of wood?
Mob member: BUILD A BRIDGE OUT UV HER!!
Bedivere: Ah, but can you not also build bridges out of stone?
That may or may not be true. Such weighty matters, I believe, should be left with a panel of experts.
After all, even a King was having difficulty with that one.
I can’t say that I understand the photograph at all. I imagine they will do computer renderings in due time. Amazing find!
Describes me, too, plus Scottish.
Bravely Sir Robin. Sir Robin ran away... “I didn’t!”
Any reader would have noticed they had a mere two hours to dig before the waters came back in.
Probably no way to find out for sure, but it seems somewhat likely. :^)
I don't know how old you are, but one of the benefits of getting old is being able to blame everything on your age.
The Sweden and Denmark DNA boggles my mind as my father was born in Holland, and my mother in Canada. Somebody in my family got around.
It’s a scan of an old map. I’ve checked for a larger image size and alas didn’t find one. Hard to read.
I am sure they made an estimate on the size based on length of span needed and depth of water.
Two hours to dig up, but they would have been idiots not to gather all the information they could before starting the dig.
Look on the bright side. You were half right.
I’m sure they dug in the place they knew someone had seen the remains before, precisely because they are not idiots.
Well, let's see. I was born in 1956. I grew up with rotary phones, B&W TVs, with rabbit ear antennas, no remote, 4 OTA TV channels, that went off at midnight, no computers, no cell phones, no internet. Research for school work was done with real hard back encyclopedias' and trips to a brick and mortar library. If something note worthy happened anywhere, even down the street, it could take days to find out about it. Music sounded like...music.
So, I'm not young, chronologically speaking. I'll just chalk it up to a, hopefully, rare brain dead moment and plow on. ;O)
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