tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post7670777719095784394..comments2023-10-12T02:21:40.102-07:00Comments on English Historical Fiction Authors: The Ruins of Rome beneath our feetDebra Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03256313302199653185noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-10746019990372281902016-08-25T04:22:51.440-07:002016-08-25T04:22:51.440-07:00That is indeed sad, Steven.That is indeed sad, Steven.Matthew Harffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12994917417232123639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-53987425523126055632016-05-29T06:12:54.424-07:002016-05-29T06:12:54.424-07:00I've been to Britain twice and enjoyed many of...I've been to Britain twice and enjoyed many of your Roman sites. I envy you that for there is little sense of history where I come from. We plow it under, scrape, it clean and build something to profit some developer.Stevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03629291415071124964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-29853201698998878112016-02-22T05:16:50.266-08:002016-02-22T05:16:50.266-08:00That must have been fascinating! Thanks for sharin...That must have been fascinating! Thanks for sharing.Matthew Harffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12994917417232123639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-43769205641498024122016-02-22T05:16:16.820-08:002016-02-22T05:16:16.820-08:00And to think most people think the Romans never go...And to think most people think the Romans never got further than Hadrian's Wall! It seems all schools in Britain are built on Roman remains!Matthew Harffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12994917417232123639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-13737035233035837222016-02-22T05:14:27.899-08:002016-02-22T05:14:27.899-08:00I lived in Spain for a long time and one of the mo...I lived in Spain for a long time and one of the most impressive Roman edifices I have ever seen is just to the north of Madrid: Segovia Aqueduct. Look it up on Google - it is truly impressive and was still bringing water to the city nearly into the 21st century! And all without mortar to hold the rocks together! In the Middle Ages, the inhabitants apparently thought it had been built by the devil - but that didn't stop them using the water it delivered!Matthew Harffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12994917417232123639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-81776724473229469452016-02-22T05:11:33.933-08:002016-02-22T05:11:33.933-08:00Thanks! Yes, the transience of all things would ha...Thanks! Yes, the transience of all things would have been very present for people in the so-called Dark Ages. It is something that we all too often neglect to think about in the modern "civilized" west.Matthew Harffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12994917417232123639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-22590656689940410512016-02-21T15:10:07.991-08:002016-02-21T15:10:07.991-08:00When I was 11 and at a recently opened school, bul...When I was 11 and at a recently opened school, bulldozers flattening what was to become the playing fields laid bare a settlement of Celtic roundhouses. I watched the archeologists all the summer term from my grandstand view of a desk by a first floor window. My concept of history never looked back.Linda Acasterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03096791092366530129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-89942694671742341612016-02-21T07:22:17.474-08:002016-02-21T07:22:17.474-08:00My daughter's school is also built on a Roman ...My daughter's school is also built on a Roman site, at the western end of the Antonine Wall. There's no ruins or anything to see though, unfortunately. Steven A. McKayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06722539602301475850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-47527534491055867802016-02-21T07:22:12.535-08:002016-02-21T07:22:12.535-08:00My daughter's school is also built on a Roman ...My daughter's school is also built on a Roman site, at the western end of the Antonine Wall. There's no ruins or anything to see though, unfortunately. Steven A. McKayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06722539602301475850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-23933236548632312702016-02-21T06:56:01.035-08:002016-02-21T06:56:01.035-08:00This was so fascinating. My husband and I go to no...This was so fascinating. My husband and I go to northern Spain frequently--Galicia--and there are many Roman relics there, too, as well as Roman bridges everywhere. Also Celtic traces. Historical buildings are not very old in America (where we live), and so England and Europe astound us with their history etched in stone and lasting for centuries. Elizabeth Varadan, Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01708206753256682635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-55407652959940010362016-02-21T05:39:30.370-08:002016-02-21T05:39:30.370-08:00Wonderful post!
But the constant reminder all ar...Wonderful post! <br /><br /><i>But the constant reminder all around them of a clearly superior technological past must have been unnerving.</i><br /><br />Indeed. Fantasizing that these sites were there for them to think about and experience in the dark ages. They did not have the luxury of thinking the given social order is imputable...not that they needed that lesson! What is unnerving for me today is how quickly things can fall apart.<br /><br /><i>In 2013 alone, there were 73,000 reported archaeological finds in Britain!</i><br /><br />Amazing!Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033117202223821117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-79090539974493362832016-02-20T17:54:54.993-08:002016-02-20T17:54:54.993-08:00We are certainly blessed in Britain with lots of d...We are certainly blessed in Britain with lots of diverse archaeological remains, but wherever you are in the world, there will be memories in the ground of the men and women who have gone before.Matthew Harffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12994917417232123639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-26017002454501906862016-02-20T13:01:09.545-08:002016-02-20T13:01:09.545-08:00It must be wonderful to think of all those ancient...It must be wonderful to think of all those ancient remains beneath your feet, though where I live you're unlikely to find anything Roman or Saxon. ;-) We do have archaeology here. It's amazing what people have found in their back yards, such as evidence of an old murder or two. There was a dig in one of Melbourne's streets some years ago, in what is now the CBD but was a place where people lived in the 19th and early 20th centuries. And, of course, we're home to the world's oldest living culture.Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-24439234837324159842016-02-20T10:23:07.064-08:002016-02-20T10:23:07.064-08:00The mosaic is from the villa and dated at about 36...The mosaic is from the villa and dated at about 360 A.D. You can see a bit more images here: http://www.bradfordonavonmuseum.co.uk/archives/3686Matthew Harffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12994917417232123639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-38038156618647587642016-02-20T08:44:25.024-08:002016-02-20T08:44:25.024-08:00Lovely mosaic. Is the central rose part of the ori...Lovely mosaic. Is the central rose part of the original design? Looks more modern.Christine Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09575689858652135192noreply@blogger.com