My home town Houten is in the news! (Limes)

[MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS]

but I hope you won't hold it against me when I don't post aerial pictures on the forum...

Huh???

do you have a model helicopter with camera then??



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[Robert Vermaat]

Huh???
do you have a model helicopter with camera then??

No, but I do have access to a better local database than Google Earth.

Newspaper links to the find in English media:
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650220885,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/y9frs4 (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/yzakle (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.physorg.com/news87273256.html
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/01 ... 1_5_07.txt
http://tinyurl.com/szx33 (Seattle Times)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16489022/

[MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS]

COOL!!!!

Ah! I see Wilfried is on it!!

good!!

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[Robert Vermaat]

Yours truly & son in the local news:

Click here for the article (in Dutch).

[Robert]

He Robert, I did get my son to don a Roman uniform (check the website, the moross looking legionair in the seg) but I had to PAY him! You have your kids beter housebroken, it seems :lol: Nice pic!

[Robert Vermaat]

Pay him? Jeroen comes with us since he was about 3.. Maybe I'll have to pay him when he's 15, but so far, so good!

Here he is, 2 years old:

[MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS]

so... what did you pay him?

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[aitor iriarte]

Maybe a lollypop from time to time... 8)
(We're going off-topic, guys... :roll: )


Aitor

[Virilis]

This photo by Aitor reminds me of a one painful thing. You guys can decide for example "Well, there`s nothing particular to do next weekend, maybe I´ll visit the ruins of Numantia". Oh how I envy you sometimes ( you lucky sobs living in an area which was sometimes called the roman empire :wink: )...

[MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS]

Aitor, is that that Roman villa excavation in Belgium?

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[aitor iriarte]

No Henk, hock:
It is the ancient city of Veleia (Today Iruña), Basque Country (Spain)

Aitor

[MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS]

Ah okay!! it just looked very similar to a dig i once have been to with the gemina...

so was this a carthaginian town by origin?

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[aitor iriarte]

All archaeological sites look the same... :wink:
As far as we know, Carthaginians never reached this point... Before the Romans, Iruña/Veleia was one of the main (if not the main one) cities or 'oppida' of the iron Age Caristians (Carietes, Karistoi...)


Aitor

[Robert Vermaat]

Thanks Duncan. Maybe I'll take the car and try if I can get near the site...

I have pictures!!!! Later tonight, I promise.

[Robert Vermaat]

Two panoramas of the profile, link to the large version below:

http://www.fectio.org.uk/shows/houten2007_pano1.jpg


http://www.fectio.org.uk/shows/houten2007_pano2.jpg

The road surface is made of gravel. Or, as the archaeologist Cees Stoop said: "we've dug up one bloody exiting tray of cat litter".

Looking across the road surface to the profile. Note the remains of a trench below the road surface - this may be a marker trench.