European summer droughts exposed riverside archaeology: a Tudor storehouse footprint at Portchester Castle, a Roman Jupiter altar in Hungary's low Danube, woolly mammoth bones near Bulgaria's Constantine Bridge, Nero's Bridge in Rome, and Saxony's Pirna Hunger Stone etched from 1707.
European droughts expose Roman and prehistoric ruins across riversides
Key facts
- Record-breaking European summer droughts revealed multiple archaeological sites
- Portchester Castle (UK) showed footprints of a Tudor-era storehouse
- 30-year record low Danube levels in Hungary exposed a Roman altar to Jupiter and inscribed limestone tablets
- Serbian Danube stretch exposed 20 Nazi warships
- Bulgarian Danube banks revealed foundations of the 1,700-year-old Constantine Bridge and woolly mammoth bones (jawbone, tusks, shoulder blade, ribs)
- Low Tiber River in Rome exposed Nero's Bridge, likely built by Caligula to connect his mother Agrippina's villa
- Elba River (Saxony) re-exposed the Pirna 'Hunger Stone' carved with 20 dates, the oldest from 1707
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Hot weather reveals hidden history across the Southbbc.com
English Heritage, which runs the castle, said the storehouse was believed to date from between 1489 and 1540. National Trust Parch marks on a ...
Portchester Castle: from Roman Fort to Prisoner-of-War ...artsandculture.google.com
Between 1961 and 1979 the castle was the scene of major archaeological excavations directed by Professor Barry Cunliffe. These produced thousands of finds
The Tudor Store-House at Portchester Castle, Hampshiretandfonline.com
by BW CUNLIFFE · 1971 — The Tudor Store-House at Portchester Castle, Hampshire. Post-Medieval Archaeology: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 188-190. Published online: 25 Jan 2014
Portchester Castle - MuseumsUKmuseumsuk.com
Portchester Castle is one of the most extraordinary ancient monuments in England. The keep rises four storeys, its solid walls of locally quarried stone
Portchester Castle, Hampshire - Bibliographyhenryviiihouses.byu.edu
Cunliffe, B. W., “The Tudor Store-House at Portchester Castle,” Post-Medieval Archaeology 5(1971): 188–90 and Fig. 66. A History of the County of Hampshire:
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