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Title: Techno-start digging!
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 17 April 2016, 11:42:01 AM
Major find out under a barn...
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/17/amazing-find-roman-villa?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H&utm_term=167556&subid=15204226&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Title: Re: Techno-start digging!
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 17 April 2016, 11:59:04 AM
Fairly pointless in that part of Wales - the Romans sat behind solid stone walls due to revolting natives. Brilliant find though.

IanS.
Title: Re: Techno-start digging!
Post by: Techno on 17 April 2016, 12:22:44 PM
I don't think the Romans ever made it out here, Will.

Best I'll ever hope to find is some sort of torc....But I can't use a metal detector around Techno Towers, in case I dig up an unexploded mortar shell.

Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Techno-start digging!
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 17 April 2016, 03:04:13 PM
Techno, they did!
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art15842

http://www.britainexpress.com/wales/pembrokeshire/roman/index.htm

http://www.dyfedarchaeology.org.uk/digdiaries2013/wiston.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-23628630

Love
Will Denham MA in Classics (Later Roman Military History)
Title: Re: Techno-start digging!
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 17 April 2016, 04:01:21 PM
Quote from: mad lemmey on 17 April 2016, 03:04:13 PM
Will Denham MA in Classics (Later Roman Military History)

Smart A**e

IanS  ;D
Title: Re: Techno-start digging!
Post by: fsn on 17 April 2016, 04:07:11 PM
Yeah, but they never made it into Techno Towers. Techno defended it against rotten Romans with the help of his fat menhir-carrier friend, a wizard who brewed magic potions and his little dog.

I've read all about it in proper books.
Title: Re: Techno-start digging!
Post by: Fenton on 17 April 2016, 04:35:25 PM
Would that Technomoldix,Leoncastix and the little doggie Nobbieoikix
Title: Re: Techno-start digging!
Post by: d_Guy on 17 April 2016, 04:41:25 PM
Quote from: fsn on 17 April 2016, 04:07:11 PM
I've read all about it in proper books.

Is this possibly your sourcing?
http://www.kensingtonrunestone.us
Title: Re: Techno-start digging!
Post by: Ithoriel on 17 April 2016, 05:03:30 PM
In fourteen-hundred and ninety two
Columbus crossed the ocean blue
But if Columbus only knew it
The Vikings beat the b*****d to it! :D
Title: Re: Techno-start digging!
Post by: fsn on 17 April 2016, 06:05:46 PM
Quote from: d_Guy on 17 April 2016, 04:41:25 PM
Is this possibly your sourcing?

Try this one instead. Like I say proper books. Just some Frenchman moved the story to Gaul. 
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61OPwTzusrL._SX258_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)
http://www.asterix.com/ (http://www.asterix.com/)
Title: Re: Techno-start digging!
Post by: fsn on 17 April 2016, 06:11:52 PM
Quote from: Ithoriel on 17 April 2016, 05:03:30 PM
In fourteen-hundred and ninety two
Columbus crossed the ocean blue
But if Columbus only knew it
The Vikings beat the b*****d to it! :D

The Viking had the good sense to leave it alone and come home. Then some silly so-and-so of a bard has to write it down and let the cat out the bag.

I believe some monk in a kayak made it over as well, didn't he? St Brendan the Navigator (or more properly "St Brendan's got the bloody map upside down again".) He too had the sense to only talk about it when he was off his head on mead.

Title: Re: Techno-start digging!
Post by: d_Guy on 17 April 2016, 06:21:03 PM
Quote from: fsn on 17 April 2016, 06:05:46 PM
Try this one instead. Like I say proper books. Just some Frenchman moved the story to Gaul. 
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61OPwTzusrL._SX258_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)
http://www.asterix.com/ (http://www.asterix.com/)

I shall defer to your superior scholarship!
Title: Re: Techno-start digging!
Post by: Ithoriel on 17 April 2016, 06:24:48 PM
Quote from: fsn on 17 April 2016, 06:11:52 PM
The Viking had the good sense to leave it alone and come home.

Yeah, they found it was full of weapon toting sociopaths who were quite happy living life as they always had, who didn't hold with folks who worshipped weird gods and who had no truck with economic migrants coming to their shores.

No .... wait .... am I mixing up the Skraeilings and the Republicans? ;)
Title: Re: Techno-start digging!
Post by: d_Guy on 17 April 2016, 06:39:09 PM
Quote from: Ithoriel on 17 April 2016, 06:24:48 PM
Yeah, they found it was full of weapon toting sociopaths who were quite happy living life as they always had, who didn't hold with folks who worshipped weird gods and who had no truck with economic migrants coming to their shores.

No .... wait .... am I mixing up the Skraeilings and the Republicans? ;)

A fair assessment  :)

The more things change the more they stay the same.
Title: Re: Techno-start digging!
Post by: Techno on 17 April 2016, 07:12:51 PM
Quote from: mad lemmey on 17 April 2016, 03:04:13 PM
Techno, they did!
Will Denham MA in Classics (Later Roman Military History)

You live and learn.....I've even been to Wolfscastle, and had a play at making a pot on an old fashioned, hand powered potter's wheel thingy..Which was great fun.  :)

Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Techno-start digging!
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 17 April 2016, 08:10:58 PM
Now you can quote Minty Parthenon's:
Beth sydd y Rhufeiniaid rhoi i ni erioed ?
Title: Re: Techno-start digging!
Post by: Techno on 18 April 2016, 05:51:59 AM
Peace ?

Cheers - Phil