Post #1901848
2026-04-28 14:54 UTC
@IcooIey
we had a c.76AD/CE roman fort more or less in our back garden (i could see it from the bathroom window). and there was a norman motte (and once-upon-a-time bailey) across the valley (rumoured to be connected to said fort via tunnels, which may have just been the extensive roman sewers put to different use). and this was on a sheep farm in a national park with two rivers at the bottom of the fields. oh also, there was a standing stone down our lane and up another just in the field. we have a small piece of it that i found just next to it on the ground once.
sigh.
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@leebee@mastodon.art 2026-04-28 15:01
@moonrabbit @IcooIey it's tough 😁
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@IcooIey@mastodon.green 2026-04-28 15:02
@moonrabbit golly! One has to be much more skilled at reading the landscape to see the history of human habitation of indigenous peoples here. Later Europeans left stone walls through the forests. Most of the US has been lightly tread on by people, though still quite altered. Our forests here are mostly 2nd or 3rd growth, though still lush (at least in eastern CT). But I’m not going to stumble on a medieval ruin anytime soon.