05-16-2009, 07:05 PM
Quote:Quite a few of our events have been (and are still) in these areas [size=85][We've worked at Pevensey, Burgh Castle, Brancaster, Reculver, & Richborough, I suppose you can sort of count Dover, even though it's under the town now and Brancaster's just a few gentle rolling banks... sadly we'd need scuba diving gear to have appeared at Felixstowe's 'Walton Castle' structure :lol: .
Doable in wellies and a rowing boat at low tide annually, it would seem. Not much room for an audience though ;-) )
Quote:On the subject of costal defences-
As a designer that uses Photoshop a fair bit, I have had a play with how I viewed Dover's surviving pharos (when new)... let me know how wrong/right I am:
If you follow the Johnson reconstruction in Maxfield's The Saxon Shore A Handbook (Fig.53) it needs to be stepped and octagonal at each stage/window. As for the top, your guess is as good as anybody else's! Not sure if the twin (on Western Heights) would be in view from that angle. Last time I saw a log stack that neat it was in Switzerland.
Mike Bishop
