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The area has a fascinating history. There were excavations when the East Kent Access Road was built which showed evidence of the people living around here.
http://eastkent.owarch.co.uk/tag/excavation/
https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/our-work/east-kent-access-road
I was pleased to rediscover a small piece of Roman pottery lying on the ground and to see the outline of a round communal hut with scorch marks for the fire in the middle.
Half a Physicist | 07.10.18 - 8:27 a.m. | #
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Your words and pictures capture the place very well.
I think the information provided does try to explain how the now extant raised flint cross relates to the Roman triumphal arch. I don't remember it clearly, but I think it's some kind of endocast. The flint is where the open areas of the arch used to be - the arch was a four-legged one with cross-shaped passages underneath.
Malcolm | 07.10.18 - 8:49 a.m. | #
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Thank you,DG,for taking us to see Richborough. Although I have often visited Sandwich,I never had the time to walk out to see the remains, as my visits were with a bowls team who travelled by coach. I don't think I would have been very popular arriving late back. 😉
Jo W | 07.10.18 - 8:51 a.m. | #
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We went to Richborough mid morning in the October half-term a couple of years ago and, like DG found, there were very few other visitors.
A very impressive site especially when you realise that, at best, it's only about half the size of what was there originally!
The information boards were deteriorating then and I'm disappointed to read that English Heritage have not still spent some of our subs. on repairing them.
I was not aware of the existence of the Amphitheatre, so am grateful that DG went there and can assure us that we didn't miss much.
John Simmons | 07.10.18 - 8:57 a.m. | #
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Your last paragraph seemed to sum up our situation today very neatly.
Thank you DG
Jerym eedy | 07.10.18 - 9:33 a.m. | #
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Not so far away was the Richborough Military Port, of vital importance during World War 1, but even less of this remains than the Roman settlement.
Man of Kent | 07.10.18 - 9:59 a.m. | #
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August BH this year found me at Richborough. I was staying locally and friends suggested a visit to the site.
Amazingly Richborough had never cropped up on my radar, my Roman history of Britain being elsewhere and the 'wall'.
So was utterly amazed by the site and the very knowledgeable staff in what I shall call the 'wooden hut' of a visitor centre.
Didn't quite have time to also see the amphitheatre, but I will be going back next year.
Dave | 07.10.18 - 11:54 a.m. | #
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Perhaps the warning from the past is that there is no certainty, you may have the luck to be born in a period where nothing much happens in your part of the world in terms of governance - but there is still health, accidents and natural events, as those in Hawaii and Indonesia can testify.
The foundation of stability is that the majority of the population have a stake/interest in not disrupting things, but that isn't necessarily the case at the moment.
Still Anon | 07.10.18 - 12:55 p.m. | #
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I enjoyed my visit there, your last paragraph is pro Brexit at last, the EU empire finally going the way of the Roman Empire
Sir Biton | 07.10.18 - 4:49 p.m. | #
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My last paragraph can clearly be interpreted in more than one way.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 07.10.18 - 5:00 p.m. | #
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"a suspicious number of parked-up vans". How many is innocuous then?
I did enjoy thinking through the last sentence of that paragraph. Only one logical step to think through I know, but it is the weekend so my brain's in idle mode!
Andrew S | 07.10.18 - 6:28 p.m. | #
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Thank you for this look at another interesting outlier of history. I was particularly taken with your brilliant final paragraph. If a reasonable proportion of the general public can think about this deeply and politicians take it seriously, I would suggest that this paragraph is broadcast far and wide. From comments so far I guess your readers are more likely to be tuned in to the impacts of great changes over time.
I find from voluntary work explaining time and landscape, younger people often exclaim, "Ohhh, yes...!" and older people very frequently come out with, "Why didn't they tell us about this at school?"
Keep up the good work, it is very refreshing.
Herbof | 07.10.18 - 8:41 p.m. | #
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The conclusion I draw from the final paragraph is that 2000 years is a very long time. As a motivator to act (on climate change or anything else), I'd rather use horizon of, say, 30 years.
If my descendants can get through the next 30 years, I'll leave it to their descendants to deal with the other 1970 years in the double-millenium.
Malcolm | 07.10.18 - 10:41 p.m. | #
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" '...Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains."
Andrew | 08.10.18 - 5:55 a.m. | #
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