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Old Rome Architecture

Old Rome Architecture

RE: Old Rome Architecture

Or take a trip to York, Chester, Hadrian's Wall or many other superbly prepared and preserved  Roman sites in the UK, and avoid the Italian traffic.

RE: Old Rome Architecture

Or Wroxeter! fantasic place that we stumbled upon this summer. There's also the Kalkriese with a very interesting museum about Varus and the great Roman defeat.

Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
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100 % recycled posting: Electrons, ideas, finger-tips have been used over and over again...

RE: Old Rome Architecture

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Or in the above site, click in gallery, then in video clips, and make a virtual walk through old city of Rome, Coliseum, Roman Forum and Basilica Maxentius, completely free of Italian traffic!

cheers

luis

RE: Old Rome Architecture

There's a piece of crumbly Roman wall in Winchester by the river.

Portchester Castle is based on Roman works.

KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...

RE: Old Rome Architecture

Silchester is a Roman walled town in Berkshire...minus the houses, its just open space within the walls. Or several of the Saxon forts on the shore are still standing, some partially incorporated into later developments.
Plus a few mosaic floors here and there and not forgetting Roman Bath and the hot springs (some original lead plumbing in place). I think York still has some functioning Roman main drains.
Now when you called out a Roman plumber you really did get a job that would last nearly 2000years!
Their concrete has stood the test of time also.
Incidentally, the mosaic floors would be factory prefabricated for simple site installation....

JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com

RE: Old Rome Architecture

Considering we're all engineers, this may be of interest too:

http://www.pontdugard.fr/

(you trade Italian traffic for French, which I admit is not a great step forward)

RE: Old Rome Architecture

Thanks, Luis, that is a very interesting site.

RE: Old Rome Architecture

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Conimbriga mosaics

A gift for Greg Locock




luis

RE: Old Rome Architecture

Interestingly, I believe these mosaics were often prefabricated i.e. the tiles were stuck onto a sheet of fabric, shipped to site and then laid in one piece, unrolled or whatever and cemented in place.

JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com

RE: Old Rome Architecture

Wow, factory built floors in Roman times.

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