{"id":106510,"date":"2019-04-24T11:30:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T04:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-greenfinches-insistent-calls-break-a-roman-reverie\/"},"modified":"2019-04-24T12:10:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T05:10:01","slug":"country-diary-greenfinches-insistent-calls-break-a-roman-reverie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-greenfinches-insistent-calls-break-a-roman-reverie\/","title":{"rendered":"Country diary: greenfinches' insistent calls break a Roman reverie"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSandy, Bedfordshire: I can imagine myself a legionnaire marching towards Baldock, but the birds have been fighting for survivalAt school we learned about oxbow lakes, the water bodies left when rivers changed their course. Britain has its oxbow roads too, the broken strings of highways bypassed by history, some so reduced that they are mere paths alongside a hedgerow. Here the ancient forerunner of the Great North Road runs in rural parallel with the A1 half a mile west before coming to an abrupt end at a pony paddock.A Roman garrison was sited at the town end of Stratford Road \u2013 the forded street \u2013 and archaeologists and diggers have unearthed finds that span the breadth of recorded history along its length: iron-age pottery, Roman walls, coins and skeletons, the footings of a Saxon building. Continue reading…
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