Northern Ireland
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Not what you expect with a water bill!
Alice Roberts, Anglian Water, Cat Jarman, Cerne Abbas Giant, churches, digging for Britain, Hadrian’s Wall, HS2, ichtyosaur, industrialisation, Iron Age, Leicester, Norman architecture, Northern Ireland, Onyeka Nubia, Richmond Castle, Rochdale, Roman mosaic, Roman plumbing, Rutland, Rutland Water, Salisbury Plain, Stoke Mandeville, World War TwoI also received this from Anglia Water about the “Rutland Sea Dragon”, an ichtyosaur found near Rutland Water. It featured in episode four of Digging for Britain, the latest series of which was shown over two weeks in January. As ever, Alice Roberts was the main presenter, alongside Dr. Onyeka Nubia and Dr. Cat Jarman.…
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To the best of my knowledge I’ve never seen a ghost, although when I was six/seven and living near Castle Archdale on the shores of Lough Erne in County Fermanagh, our landlady’s dog, named Master Dash, sat on the steps outside the great house (no longer there) and howled. He was a soft old…
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Hoards of buried treasure are found fairly regularly, or so it seems, and when I recently saw a photograph of the Cuerdale hoard of Viking silver, dug from the bank of the River Ribble near Preston, Lancashire, it struck me that many of the items are so small and seemingly insignificant that if they had…