Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Whoops HOW ROMAN FORT FELL TO DIGGER


THEY came, they saw, they conquered. Or in this case, destroyed.

Diggers at an archaeological site took just minutes to do what the ancient Britons failed to manage.

A Roman fort had withstood the ravages of time and tribesmen until heavy-handed experts mistakenly decided to uncover its secrets with a mechanical excavator.


It seems it's an archaeology firm that dug the trench. But it's only a 3-foot trench, so it doesn't appear as if the whole site was gouged out, they just lost the opportunity to dig the trench by hand.