08-10-2011, 11:48 PM
There is another interesting aspect about the water tank I have mentioned for when viewed on a plan of the fort it does not line up in any respect to all the other buildings or features of the fort.
It may also have been a double decker type of tank with a tank above supported on six constructed pillars hence the filtration unit in the south east corner and the outlet at the south west corner that leads to the hospital building.
The water would have poured down from the top tank very fast into the filter of varying size stones and pebbles but then sadly that is now not there to show how it may have functioned
Oh and bye the bye I discovered this water tank before it was even excavated by dowsing, in fact I found also on the top an excelent stylus that I've never yet seen displayed.
There is also that the upper tank went out of use at some time for the two northern pillars were used to create a wall in the middle making two tanks at lower level, what was of interest the tank to the north was full of tremendous quantities of Samiam pottery therefore what might be the date of it.
It may also have been a double decker type of tank with a tank above supported on six constructed pillars hence the filtration unit in the south east corner and the outlet at the south west corner that leads to the hospital building.
The water would have poured down from the top tank very fast into the filter of varying size stones and pebbles but then sadly that is now not there to show how it may have functioned
Oh and bye the bye I discovered this water tank before it was even excavated by dowsing, in fact I found also on the top an excelent stylus that I've never yet seen displayed.
There is also that the upper tank went out of use at some time for the two northern pillars were used to create a wall in the middle making two tanks at lower level, what was of interest the tank to the north was full of tremendous quantities of Samiam pottery therefore what might be the date of it.
Brian Stobbs
