An interesting place! I had to look a little further, and found Romans! Twice! 1858: And the Romans invaded there twice! Someone found a Roman fort in 2017 -I believe it was the year I read about. This find proved the area was the invasion spot of choice.
It's a very good place to land, you can get a cup of tea at "The Viking" café just above the beach too Lots of Roman stuff around here still... A Tessera (part of a mossaic) from near the Roman Temple on Maiden Castle. Bit of a Roman brick and a Roman penny.
Zigs, you are one of the two people I know who know what a tessera is. The other one was an art teacher in Valencia, Spain. The Roman penny, I had no idea what it was until you identified it. My stars, the fascinating things one finds on the Stew. I'm going out to the pasture to find something archaic and interesting to post here, just to keep up with y'all!
I know what a gladiolus is too I don't have a close up picture of it but there was a trench with a drainage pipe in it that had been backfilled with soil that was full of old tesserae. You can see the bit of the excavation that I mean in this pic, but not the detail... This was in Aphrodisias by the way, not Kent I'm sure there's some interesting stuff in Texas, you have Horse Cripplers growing wild there so it's gotta be good
I am mad at Adam for not being able to run naked through the garden anymore. Gimpie Gimpie in Australia and Horse Cripplers down the block in Texas. Haha and I thought my nutsedge was bad.
I must show your video to my eldest son as he's into Geology and archaeology. I'm another person who knows what tesserae are as he's found numerous small regular pieces of stone, tile, glass or other hard materials whilst digging.
Excellent stuff @eileen A bit of knowledge of the two subjects does help, it's easy to find natural things that look man made and the other way round
