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Laghyades
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Posted: 11.10.2007, 08:04
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"It's too small to be a Roman fort, but a signal station is a distinct possibility"
I would have inclined more towards a staging post, myself. Why do you favour Sigs ?
Laghyades
Gonisogeth. Ertach.
Gyllys, gyllys glan.
Hemm yw an fordh a draow.
Dons. Ons.
Ha dehwelons.
Pan awen kov koth aga fleghes.
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marhak
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Posted: 11.10.2007, 08:32
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I don't really. Just a suggestion based on the probability that, as far as Romans were concerned, West Cornwall was much more easily reached by sea than by land. It could have been a trading post but has an awkward access from the shore. The native fort at Carnsew was much more conveniently placed for that. However, the Lelant site has yet to be confirmed as Roman.
edited by: marhak, Oct 11, 2007 - 07:33 AM
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Laghyades
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Posted: 11.10.2007, 08:40
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"West Cornwall was much more easily reached by sea than by land."
Granted. But the Romans were ever quite reluctant to get their feet wet if they didn't have to. They only really got navies going whne there was no alternative.....The Punic Wars spring to mind. And anyone who marches through the Teutobergwald when they could have embarked on ships has got a serious case of landlubber-itis.
At any rate, an excavation could probably solve it. The relics of a horse-infested staging post would be quite different from a signal station.
Laghyades
Gonisogeth. Ertach.
Gyllys, gyllys glan.
Hemm yw an fordh a draow.
Dons. Ons.
Ha dehwelons.
Pan awen kov koth aga fleghes.
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sirdhume
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Posted: 13.10.2007, 20:07
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Most of my previous posts are just based on what I was told by friends about Cornwall and the Romans I guess most just opinion from people trying to help answer my questions, how wrong they are I guess quiet wrong. So I set off to read about the Romans in Britain and learn some history.
Well I have spent sometime reading about the Romans in Britain and from my reading so far it would appear although the Romans didn't occupy this area of Britain as much as other parts of Britain there are traces of their presents here and perhaps just what we read about them being here is like much of the Cornish history romanticized in some way.
So is it not right to say we just don't have enough fact based information to really know what was going on here at that time?
Much of what we have is a school of thought. I would be interested to know of factual information anyone can give me about the Romans and Cornwall that has not been posted already.
Here is Bede's History of the English Nation I note here he writes about the area Britain covers "extends 800 miles in length towards the north, and is 200 miles in breadth, except where several promontories extend further in breadth, by which its compass is made to be 3675 miles." I have not been able to work this out as yet but I am trying, if anyone can help a thick o like me with the maths I would so grateful.
I am no expert on history so if you think I am wrong can you please give a source so we can see the truth and not so much a view.
Cheers sirdhume
edited by: sirdhume, Oct 13, 2007 - 10:01 PM
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