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A 2,000-year-old wooden bridge that once linked England and Wales discovered
Arkeonews ^ | August 31, 2023 | Oğuz Büyükyıldırım

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 ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: chepstow; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; globalwarminghoax; godsgravesglyphs; greennewdeal; romanempire; wales; wye
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The bridge was previously discovered and partially excavated in 1911 by Dr. Orville Owen. It also appeared on an old Ordnance Survey map at around the same time but has been buried in mud ever since.
CAS/Wales News Service
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1 posted on 09/04/2023 5:04:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

2 posted on 09/04/2023 5:04:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Bagpipes-related DNA... that does make sense.)
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To: SunkenCiv

The Romans. The Americans of the ancient world. All things must end.


3 posted on 09/04/2023 5:07:53 PM PDT by Rural_Michigan
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To: SunkenCiv

4 posted on 09/04/2023 5:09:42 PM PDT by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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To: Kenny Bania

What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?


5 posted on 09/04/2023 5:12:43 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: SunkenCiv

1) Climate Change is making the seas rise and will inundate many islands.
2) Extreme low tides just revealed a bridge that’s been lost for about 2000 years.


6 posted on 09/04/2023 5:14:50 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (They say "Our Democracy" but they mean Cosa Nostra.)
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To: Rural_Michigan
All things must end.

Verifiably, they do, or at least, they all have up to this point.

400-year-ish is a good run for a dominant culture. I don't think the United States is over, but if it were, it would still have had a good run

7 posted on 09/04/2023 5:16:00 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: EvilCapitalist

African or European?


8 posted on 09/04/2023 5:16:14 PM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: EvilCapitalist
What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

So, answering the main question here, the "airspeed velocity" of an unladen swallow (European) is something like 20.1 miles per hour (32.4 kph) or 29.5 feet per second (9 meters per second).
Some will contented it's 24 miles per hour or 11 meters per second.

Next question....

9 posted on 09/04/2023 5:18:26 PM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: DariusBane

I.. I don’t know that. Aaaaahhhhhh!!!!!


10 posted on 09/04/2023 5:20:47 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: Rural_Michigan

Sounds like wishful thinking.


11 posted on 09/04/2023 5:21:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

:^) /bingo


12 posted on 09/04/2023 5:21:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Bounced2X

Oh you’re no fun anymore.


13 posted on 09/04/2023 5:21:39 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: Bounced2X

brown noser...


14 posted on 09/04/2023 5:23:43 PM PDT by sit-rep
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To: SunkenCiv

would be interesting to know the size of this bridge. Surprised anyone would write this article and not think a reader would like to know the size.


15 posted on 09/04/2023 5:24:56 PM PDT by dmet
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To: sit-rep

Lol!


16 posted on 09/04/2023 5:25:53 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: EvilCapitalist
Oh you’re no fun anymore.

Oh I beg to differ. I just mislabeled Joe Montana as Joe Namath on another thread. I'll be a laughing stock for at least a little while. ;O)

17 posted on 09/04/2023 5:27:29 PM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: Bounced2X

Lol!


18 posted on 09/04/2023 5:28:25 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: SunkenCiv

About half of my DNA is from England, Wales and northwestern Europe. I wonder if any of my ancestors ever walked over that bridge.


19 posted on 09/04/2023 5:28:28 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: sit-rep
brown noser...

It's a gift... ;^)

20 posted on 09/04/2023 5:29:27 PM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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