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phil b

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Location: Accrington

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 12:13 am    Post subject:

durotrigian wrote:

should have made some dinner but went for a fly off to more distant places: Italy is good: I went over to Florence and the Brunelleschi Duomo, the Pitti Palace, St. Peter’s in the Vatican and the Ponte Vecchio. And on to Rome and the Colliseum, Castel d’Angelo down the Tiber to Ostia Antica which is amazing, I must have only seen a tiny fraction of it on a visit. Then down to Naples and hovered right over the centre of the crater of Vesuvius but Pompei wasn’t as clear as Ostia. Finally checked out the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis.

I just wish went it powered up it didn’t hover over the middle of the USA; can you set your own personal ‘home view’??

Vesuvius & Pompeii were amongst the first places I went!! If you would like it to open above your own place then do the following: Uncheck the Default box in LH column marked Places Rotate Planet to view you’d like (eg Above Britain) Go to Edit, then click on Snapshot

Close Prog and re-open, Earth should rotate to your desired location!!

Should Add – Do NOT zoom in at start, just rotate.

durotrigian

Joined: 11 Jun 2005Posts: 450

Location: Tollandune, near Gislandune

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 1:25 am    Post subject:

seems to have worked, ta. second test will be whether it sticks permanently…_________________

:=>

melter

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Location: Sheffield

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 2:43 am    Post subject:

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phil b

Joined: 09 Jun 2005Posts: 762

Location: Accrington

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 11:38 am    Post subject:

durotrigian wrote:

seems to have worked, ta.
second test will be whether it sticks permanently…

Has at my end

phil b

Joined: 09 Jun 2005Posts: 762

Location: Accrington

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 11:40 am    Post subject:

melter wrote:

Today Accrington, Tomorrow The World, Ha Ha Ha Ha

BUT I DON’T WANT SHEFFIELD

melter

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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:05 pm    Post subject:

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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 5:11 pm    Post subject:

durotrigian wrote:

Abergevenny is out and whole A4042 road up to it is out to from the A472 upwards. the high res. zone ends between that road and the road from Pontypool to Blaenavon, Cymavon Road, (abt. 1.5 to 1.6 miles west of the A4042 is the boundary) and the line then curves round to the west.

sorry…

Thanks, I may be able to grab a tiny portion of this and that but not much, Henllys vale should be on there though so my luck may still be in.

timh

Joined: 31 Jan 2006Posts: 9

Location: nr Calleva Atrebatum

Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:48 pm    Post subject:

Had never touched it until I read this thread….Sadly now I m hooked!

phil b

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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:06 am    Post subject:

Pyramids are good too Tim

 

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Time Team Forum Friends :: View topic – Google Earth

Google Earth

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phil b

Joined: 09 Jun 2005Posts: 762

Location: Accrington

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 12:13 am    Post subject:

durotrigian wrote:

should have made some dinner but went for a fly off to more distant places: Italy is good: I went over to Florence and the Brunelleschi Duomo, the Pitti Palace, St. Peter’s in the Vatican and the Ponte Vecchio. And on to Rome and the Colliseum, Castel d’Angelo down the Tiber to Ostia Antica which is amazing, I must have only seen a tiny fraction of it on a visit. Then down to Naples and hovered right over the centre of the crater of Vesuvius but Pompei wasn’t as clear as Ostia. Finally checked out the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis.

I just wish went it powered up it didn’t hover over the middle of the USA; can you set your own personal ‘home view’??

Vesuvius & Pompeii were amongst the first places I went!! If you would like it to open above your own place then do the following: Uncheck the Default box in LH column marked Places Rotate Planet to view you’d like (eg Above Britain) Go to Edit, then click on Snapshot

Close Prog and re-open, Earth should rotate to your desired location!!

Should Add – Do NOT zoom in at start, just rotate.

durotrigian

Joined: 11 Jun 2005Posts: 450

Location: Tollandune, near Gislandune

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 1:25 am    Post subject:

seems to have worked, ta. second test will be whether it sticks permanently…_________________

:=>

melter

Joined: 10 Jun 2005Posts: 560

Location: Sheffield

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 2:43 am    Post subject:

Today Accrington, Tomorrow The World, Ha Ha Ha Ha _________________

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phil b

Joined: 09 Jun 2005Posts: 762

Location: Accrington

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 11:38 am    Post subject:

durotrigian wrote:

seems to have worked, ta.
second test will be whether it sticks permanently…

Has at my end

phil b

Joined: 09 Jun 2005Posts: 762

Location: Accrington

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 11:40 am    Post subject:

melter wrote:

Today Accrington, Tomorrow The World, Ha Ha Ha Ha

BUT I DON’T WANT SHEFFIELD

melter

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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:05 pm    Post subject:

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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 5:11 pm    Post subject:

durotrigian wrote:

Abergevenny is out and whole A4042 road up to it is out to from the A472 upwards. the high res. zone ends between that road and the road from Pontypool to Blaenavon, Cymavon Road, (abt. 1.5 to 1.6 miles west of the A4042 is the boundary) and the line then curves round to the west.

sorry…

Thanks, I may be able to grab a tiny portion of this and that but not much, Henllys vale should be on there though so my luck may still be in.

timh

Joined: 31 Jan 2006Posts: 9

Location: nr Calleva Atrebatum

Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:48 pm    Post subject:

Had never touched it until I read this thread….Sadly now I m hooked!

phil b

Joined: 09 Jun 2005Posts: 762

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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:06 am    Post subject:

Pyramids are good too Tim

 

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Pinched from the other side From the Gloucestrshire Echo: Channel 4’s Time Team have unearthed some fascinating ancient finds in Britain’s fields. But the discovery of their latest Roman settlement in the Cotswolds was not the result of academic research. Instead, experts on the TV show have moles to thank for digging up stones from an ancient villa. They burrowed their way through a remote, unploughed two-acre field near Withington – and churned up what looked like unremarkable stone cubes. When local archaeologist Roger Box stumbled across the molehills by chance, he had a hunch they marked the spot of a major hidden treasure. Recognising the stones as mosaic cubes, he called in the Time Team. Roger and the team knew that renowned antiquarian Samuel Lysons had uncovered a villa nearby in 1811.They thought the mosaics were from a bath house attached to the lost Lysons villa. But geo-physics surveys uncovered a massive Roman complex completely unrelated to Lysons’ find. Roger said he had worried that the molehill mosaics would turn out to just be debris. He said: “But in minutes, geo-physics identified interesting anomalies, thought to be buildings. “Phil Harding opened up a trench and immediately a Roman mosaic pavement appeared. “I was filled with relief that my instincts had proved correct and away we went. We knew we were in business. “Initially we thought we were looking at a temple or bath house, probably associated with the main Lysons’ villa. “High arched blocks began to appear, suggesting a building with a vaulted ceiling, plastered and painted with frescos inside. “We found a geometric mosaic floor pattern with a hypocaust heating system, showing we were dealing with a high-status bath house.” Then geo-physics threw up a large stone-lined plunge pool. But the greatest shock was yet to come in the last half hour of the three-day project. Geo-phys teams finally located the Lysons villa 300m away. They also uncovered a massive complex stretching in the opposite direction from the Withington site. Roger said: “The geo-phys team extended the survey away from the bath house and found a massive Roman building complex. “It caught all the experts off-guard because it’s extremely unusual to find two Roman villas – this one and Lysons – so close to each other. “This makes the potential complex bigger than Chedworth.” Roger, who lives near the site, was amazed by the find on his own doorstep. Post-excavation work has been carried out by Neil Holbrooke of Cotswold Archaeological Trust in Kemble. The Time Team’s preliminary digs have been filled in and Roger expects the villas to remain underground because excavating them would be so expensive. Roger added: “The archaeology to uncover them again would cost a fortune. But the find has gone further to confirming that the parish of Withington is a surviving Roman estate.” Villas out of Molehills will be shown at 5.45pm on Channel 4 on January 29.

“It’s extremely unusual to find two Roman villas – this one and Lysons – so close to each other.”

Time Team Forum Friends :: View topic – Pre-Christmas treat – TT special on 28 Nov

There are any amount of theories as to the purpose of this, or any of the other Henges. Some sound plausible, some not. I’m reminded of the sketch in Dead Ringers, where they send up TT. Where Phil (I think) finds a piece of pottery, on the basis of this, they assume there was a large Roman town there, with temples mosaics etc (or words to that effect). At Durrington, how do they know that every hole was a post hole ? if they were post holes, how high were the posts, and how thick ? You cant tell the thickness of a post by the size of the hole. It’s possible the posts were only short, and forming supports for a fence . Perhaps it was an animal enclosure, and where animals were slaughtered for food, not to part of a ritual. Perhaps it was a defensive stockade to keep out marauding foreigners ?

The fact is, we’ll never know for sure.

Time Team Forum Friends :: View topic – Pre-Christmas treat – TT special on 28 Nov

There are any amount of theories as to the purpose of this, or any of the other Henges. Some sound plausible, some not. I’m reminded of the sketch in Dead Ringers, where they send up TT. Where Phil (I think) finds a piece of pottery, on the basis of this, they assume there was a large Roman town there, with temples mosaics etc (or words to that effect). At Durrington, how do they know that every hole was a post hole ? if they were post holes, how high were the posts, and how thick ? You cant tell the thickness of a post by the size of the hole. It’s possible the posts were only short, and forming supports for a fence . Perhaps it was an animal enclosure, and where animals were slaughtered for food, not to part of a ritual. Perhaps it was a defensive stockade to keep out marauding foreigners ?

The fact is, we’ll never know for sure.

Time Team Forum Friends :: View topic – Pre-Christmas treat – TT special on 28 Nov

There are any amount of theories as to the purpose of this, or any of the other Henges. Some sound plausible, some not. I’m reminded of the sketch in Dead Ringers, where they send up TT. Where Phil (I think) finds a piece of pottery, on the basis of this, they assume there was a large Roman town there, with temples mosaics etc (or words to that effect). At Durrington, how do they know that every hole was a post hole ? if they were post holes, how high were the posts, and how thick ? You cant tell the thickness of a post by the size of the hole. It’s possible the posts were only short, and forming supports for a fence . Perhaps it was an animal enclosure, and where animals were slaughtered for food, not to part of a ritual. Perhaps it was a defensive stockade to keep out marauding foreigners ?

The fact is, we’ll never know for sure.

Time Team Forum Friends :: View topic – Pre-Christmas treat – TT special on 28 Nov

There are any amount of theories as to the purpose of this, or any of the other Henges. Some sound plausible, some not. I’m reminded of the sketch in Dead Ringers, where they send up TT. Where Phil (I think) finds a piece of pottery, on the basis of this, they assume there was a large Roman town there, with temples mosaics etc (or words to that effect). At Durrington, how do they know that every hole was a post hole ? if they were post holes, how high were the posts, and how thick ? You cant tell the thickness of a post by the size of the hole. It’s possible the posts were only short, and forming supports for a fence . Perhaps it was an animal enclosure, and where animals were slaughtered for food, not to part of a ritual. Perhaps it was a defensive stockade to keep out marauding foreigners ?

The fact is, we’ll never know for sure.

Time Team Forum Friends :: View topic – Pre-Christmas treat – TT special on 28 Nov

There are any amount of theories as to the purpose of this, or any of the other Henges. Some sound plausible, some not. I’m reminded of the sketch in Dead Ringers, where they send up TT. Where Phil (I think) finds a piece of pottery, on the basis of this, they assume there was a large Roman town there, with temples mosaics etc (or words to that effect). At Durrington, how do they know that every hole was a post hole ? if they were post holes, how high were the posts, and how thick ? You cant tell the thickness of a post by the size of the hole. It’s possible the posts were only short, and forming supports for a fence . Perhaps it was an animal enclosure, and where animals were slaughtered for food, not to part of a ritual. Perhaps it was a defensive stockade to keep out marauding foreigners ?

The fact is, we’ll never know for sure.

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