Not sure if the vapour trail of the Southampton to Glasgow shuttle can be seen in the image is there but believe me it is. This was captured in the evening of the coldest day of the year (I moaned about this in a previous post). Thankfully, the temperature has increased significantly since then – it currently is somewhere in the region of 10C and should get to 13C by sunset so that is something.
There were plans behind these images but for too many boring reasons they didn’t work out. However, one of the more interesting thing is that I was able to stand on top of what is left of the Fosse Way.
This is one of the earliest Roman Roads in Britain c40 – 60 CE. This sounds like a big thing and perhaps if you’re not in southern Britain or the rest of Europe it might be. However, Roman Roads are really quite common and within a 30 Km radius from this point there are at least two others. Of course it helps to be just outside the civitas Ratae Corieltauvorum (Leicester) but still there are a lot of them. In fact it really isn’t anything like the oldest archaeology in the area but that is another story.
One final bit of trivia…the photo of the Southampton to Glasgow et al above is also the 500th image I’ve captured with my new phone. Not sure whether this is important but I thought I would just mention it.
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