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Self-healing concrete. Amazing!https://www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-know-how-ancient-roman-concrete-was-so-durable

Self-healing concrete. Amazing!

https://www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-know-how-ancient-roman-concrete-was-so-durable

The Roche Roman camp and fortlet excavated by CAU last year feature in this episode of Digging for Britain with @aliceroberts. And they’ve...

The Roche Roman camp and fortlet excavated by CAU last year feature in this episode of Digging for Britain with @aliceroberts. And they’ve done a really good job from what were some pretty meagre pickings finds wise.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0dm8056
#CAU #Cornwall #roman

A suitably wintry scene from the Tregurra Valley, Truro, circa 1800, as seen by our illustrator Jane Read. The drive in the foreground was a...

A suitably wintry scene from the Tregurra Valley, Truro, circa 1800, as seen by our illustrator Jane Read. The drive in the foreground was a surprisingly well constructed road leading up to Lower Penair farm.

In the background is a brick drying clamp, using the valley clays to make bricks for use in Truro.

The post-medieval aspect of life in the valley, written by Graeme Kirkham, will appear in the next volume of Cornish Archaeology.

One minute you're doodling away on a piece of slate, then five and a half thousand years pass and someone digs it up.#neolithic...

One minute you're doodling away on a piece of slate, then five and a half thousand years pass and someone digs it up.
#neolithic #cornwall #tregurra #10yearanniversary

Quick, buy it before they start giving it away!https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781803270043

Quick, buy it before they start giving it away!
https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781803270043

Apologies to anyone who was following me. Now on my third elephantine incarnation and hope I've got it right this time!

Apologies to anyone who was following me. Now on my third elephantine incarnation and hope I've got it right this time!