----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham Speechley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 2:19 PM Subject: [canals-list] Re: Sharpness (Google maps OT)
> --- In [email protected], "Mack, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> > Steve of Bream wrote . . >> What is the curious texture on the fields to the south west of Lydney? >> > In Windows Local Live they have moved into a field West of the docks > close to the railway. My Guess is they are movable Pig Pens or Chicken > Coops. Would possibly explain why some seem to fade away. They are > where the pens have been. > Regards Graham. > nb wasaphotoreconnisancebodinthelastwar I did some detective work today about these marks & located a nearby farmer. He told me that the Golf club on the other side of the A 48 is being sold for housing. They wished to move to the fields where the marks are located. The council wouldn't let them move until the site had an archiological examination for early remains. The marks are where the archiological survey trenches have been filled in. See http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=lydney&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&client=firefox-a&ll=51.71565,-2.514088&spn=0.009479,0.020084&t=h&z=16&om=1 It filled in a quiet afternoon for me! Dave Croft Warrington http://oldengine.org/members/croft/ http://community.webshots.com/user/crftdv
