Wow, cool find. Its amazing how far some of these things get buried and in how little time really.
Dave On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > Much the same here. As you can probably imagine, whenever anybody digs > anything in Greenwich there are teams of archaeologists waiting to pounce. A > few years ago they found an unexploded WWII bomb under one of the paths I use > every day... > > The thing that's really getting their archaeological juices flowing at the > moment is an enormous 12th C tide mill which they found more or less at the > end of my street: > <http://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/water-power-in-medieval-greenwich.htm> > > Bob > >> >> Yes i suppose they had to be. >> I have always been interested in "olden days" so to speak and >> found the castles very interesting. >> >> When they do road widenings around here, they do digs and >> have found a lot of native and non native artifacts. Its fun >> to stop and chat with the people. >> >> Dave >> >> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: >> > But they were fantastically strong. I'm very interested in >> the 14th century for some unknown reason and despite the >> terrible living conditions (by our standards) of all ranks of >> society, and the unhealthy lives they all lived, the men had >> to be incredibly strong and tough, taking on major >> responsibilities at a very young age. Most of them were dead >> before they were 45 though. >> > >> > Bob >> > >> >> >> >> Nice sign. >> >> >> >> I visited London England in 1975 and toured some of the castles. I >> >> was amazed at how small the Knights armour was and i'm only 5'6" >> >> >> >> Dave >> >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 6:01 PM, eckinator >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Just an old warning sign I saw at La Granja manor (south of >> >> > Valldemossa, Mallorca, Spain) and found kinda fun. >> >> > >> >> > La Granja is a medieval manor now converted into a museum >> >> based on its >> >> > own history; well worth a visit if you are in the area. >> >> Friends own a >> >> > small apartment on a hilltop overlooking Puerto de Andratx >> >> which has a >> >> > fabulous view but is in somewhat poor repair so they rent it out >> >> > for >> >> > 15 to 25 € a night which is next to nothing by any >> >> standard. Thus, I >> >> > will definitely be going there again some day. >> >> > >> >> > http://tinyurl.com/yeedjp4 >> >> > >> >> > Same Picasa web album as always >> >> > Comments appreciated as always >> >> > >> >> > Cheers >> >> > Ecke >> >> > >> >> > -- >> >> > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> >> > [email protected] >> >> > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> >> > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link >> >> directly above and follow the directions. >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. >> >> www.caughtinmotion.com >> >> http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ >> >> York Region, Ontario, Canada >> >> >> >> -- >> >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >> >> and follow the directions. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> > [email protected] >> > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link >> directly above and follow the directions. >> >> >> >> -- >> Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. >> www.caughtinmotion.com >> http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ >> York Region, Ontario, Canada >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly >> above and follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
