A TREASURE TROVE

Obviously you were confused. Sorry if I tried to clarify.

I understood clearly what was written.

The 'confusion' lies with you and if you cannot accept that you were wrong, then I would suggest that you stop stamping your feet about it as you make yourself look sillier with each ensuing post regarding the matter.

A lot of the land round there is untouched. Salisbury plain is one big military training area, and Warminster itself is a military base. There are also the remains of two Saxon hill forts in the area.

It's also located near to Henge and is on the road between London and Bristol/Wales. Chances are there's a lot of stuff still uncovered, (military bases are also valued by naturalists because of the lack of pesticide use.)

Explosives must be annoying, though. A serious question--is there the possibility of un-exploded ordnance there?

Probably not. It's not changed hands so they probably know where everything is. And it wouldn't have been that much of a target during the war, being mostly fields.

I don't normally drive that way, when I visit my dad in Somerset there's a more direct route but sometimes roadworks have made me go down there. You see this sign a lot, I've hardly seen it anywhere else in the UK.

Cool . . . thanks.

We'll have such notices at least until 2018 here ...




... and most certainly some (minor) battles between the Romans and Saxons happened there.

What the Romans left there has been ... horses, the so-called 'Senne horses', a semi-wild brand.
The legend is that they were originally horses from Varus' legions.

Well, Varus' legionaries certainly didn't need them any longer.

just saw this, neat. any aerial photos of the entire site?

Couldn't find one, only a "hedgehopper view":

I 've just been up in my microlight, fm, and this is about the best shot I could get.......

It's wonderful how helpful people will be on a topic like this.

You're not fooling anyone, that's the stadium built for the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Here's some pics.






Roman child's coffin used as planter.

LiveLeak has a collection of all photos available.

I was hoping for some LIDAR aerials. They probably took thise a few years ago before they knew about the site. Lidar has an ability to "interpret" minor slope changes and, if any of em are in rectilinear patterns it could give clues to the overall location and shape of the villa.

Its often amazing how LIDAR can retain these slope changes over long periods of time even after agriculture.

(Not always though so its just a resource that may be of use)

Heres some examples of KIDAR scans for the Wiltshire region. You can see that many of these ""slope shade" maps detect really minor linear slope changes.
https://www.google.com/search?q=LIDAR+maps+of+Wiltshire+UK&rlz=1C1VFKB_enUS630US633&espv=2&biw=1551&bih=771&tbm=isch&imgil=pHJz5GuoWgznMM%253A%253Bm57JbADv5Ry2AM%253Bhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fhistoricengland.org.uk%25252Fresearch%25252Fapproaches%25252Fresearch-methods%25252Fairborne-remote-sensing%25252Flidar%25252F&source=iu&pf=m&fir=pHJz5GuoWgznMM%253A%252Cm57JbADv5Ry2AM%252C_&usg=__d5TTXP1WaQLz-YbWgcYu8eX8dYc%3D&ved=0ahUKEwjRivLvx6TMAhUKt4MKHeESCrMQyjcILA&ei=xU8bV5GUM4rujgThpaiYCw#imgrc=7WOkaRuN6zq4vM%3A

Here, in my state, we used LIDAR maps only for large-scale evaluation of forest areas. Otherwise, aerial maps and the historic and modern sources as archive data, literature, image and map series for the landscape analyses.

It's done the same way in England: LIDAR @ Historic England

because LIDAR shoots laser pulses at the rate of thousnds per second, it will shoot between the spaces of trees, slopes in grain fields, and will interpolate around buildings. So it is actually possible, using the "Slopeshade " option, to totally remove all buildings and reinforce any previous rises that have a rectalinear pattern. Coupling LIDAR with a multispectral image (IR,FLIR,UV, UUV, False color, X-ray) can give a whole nother look down. I hope thyve reviewwed the record with this site.
The biggest problems are acquiring the software and hving someone ho gives a **** to play with it.
"Saturation digging" is so last year. Using it you can screw up your site by test pitting when you are using the pits to actually locate what you are interested in.