Lost cities / archaeology / ancient history

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Oliver Schick

Well, the heatwave had to be good for something:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/15/millennia-of-human-activity-heatwave-reveals-lost-uk-archaeological-sites

https://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2018/aug/15/uk-archaeology-sites-made-visible-in-heatwave-pictures

So much we've forgotten ...

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Scilly.Suffolk in reply to @Oliver Schick

Interesting to see how many of them fit in the contemporary landscape.

Or rather, how the landscape has developed around them.

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Oliver Schick in reply to @Scilly.Suffolk

Note the outline of the ancient velodrome here, proof positive that cycling was invented thousands of years ago before it was forgotten again. :)

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