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August 16, 2018
Heatwave Reveals Lost Archaeological Sites Across Britain
Celeste Li
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All images and gif should be credited: Copyright Historic England
Please use music with a feeling of “suspense”
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The scorching weather in England
has revealed hidden treasures.
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Look closely.
This is a Bronze Age burial mound.
[1st photo]
Here are 2 Neolithic cursus monuments.
The oldest monument type in the country.
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So how does archaeology form cropmarks?
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A small Iron Age settlement (c. 800 BC – 43 AD)
The same site in the Roman period (43 AD – 410 AD)
The structures have left cropmarks.
An excavation trench reveals
the nature of the cropmarks.
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Several hundred cropmarks have revealed
themselves this summer due to the dry weather.
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