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Hadrian's Wall west of Housesteads 3 [Public domain]There's hope for us yet. 😀
Hundreds of miles away from Hadrian's Wall, a man surfing the internet from the comfort of his home stumbled across something that astonished the professionals.
“What we thought we saw was a very militaristic landscape, very sparsely populated and all we saw was what survived at the surface,” said Dr David Woolliscroft from Liverpool University."Then suddenly, when we started to fly, a whole new world emerged. Huge numbers - tens of thousands - of isolated farms, completely undefended.
Interesting.I never went for that miltaristic theme of marauding and pillaging. Sure there were fights and all that, but a society cannot grow if there wasn't cooperation.
Now that is interesting. I knew that aerial photography has enabled many old and ancient sites to be discovered. I find it cool that an amateur made the discovery. It is somewhat similar to what amateur astronomers do when they team up with professionals for sky surveys and such.
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