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John,
Windridge sling shot, villa(s), a fort and now a rather good paper; a site that happily has not been ignored and may yet have some form of survey - geophysics I hope.
Took a look at the new lidar data which now provides full coverage of the site.
Image above is annotated version of the first. It shows what may be a c.10 m wide road with flanking ditches (yellow arrows) and an odd set of depressions and bounding ridges that occupy a rectangular area (c. 100 m long) - maybe? The road has a raised centre section (agger-like) and overlies the rectangular depressions, i.e. the road is younger.
Image above is Google Earth 2020 showing the ditches flanking the raised road section.
As an aside, some of the depressions scattered cross the lidar imagery have bounding, circular crop-marks in various GE imagery; they may be the sites of prehistoric huts and their enclosures.
Regards, Steve Kaye
(12-30-2022, 11:52 AM)John1 Wrote: The Boudiccan case is that the site might have been that of a "show of resistance" by the residents of Verulamium so that ignores any fortification (spotted 2017 but observed/predicted as a potential by Steve Greep in his Windridge paper back in 1987). I only started looking at Windridge because Steve Kaye pointed me at it.... so if there is a Fort (spoiler.... there is) it's discovery is entirely down to the conversations and connections we've been making on here.... chalk that Fort up to RAT.... be it down to Caesar, Claudius or Nero.... I'm happy with any of these outcomes, excited to see it get some attention and dating.... (as long as i selfishly get some credit on the HER)
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John,
Windridge sling shot, villa(s), a fort and now a rather good paper; a site that happily has not been ignored and may yet have some form of survey - geophysics I hope.
Took a look at the new lidar data which now provides full coverage of the site.
Image above is annotated version of the first. It shows what may be a c.10 m wide road with flanking ditches (yellow arrows) and an odd set of depressions and bounding ridges that occupy a rectangular area (c. 100 m long) - maybe? The road has a raised centre section (agger-like) and overlies the rectangular depressions, i.e. the road is younger.
Image above is Google Earth 2020 showing the ditches flanking the raised road section.
As an aside, some of the depressions scattered cross the lidar imagery have bounding, circular crop-marks in various GE imagery; they may be the sites of prehistoric huts and their enclosures.
Regards, Steve Kaye
