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<blockquote data-quote="Red Fred" data-source="post: 7989794" data-attributes="member: 189"><p>As a slight diversion, this reminded me of a talk we had the other day about a Roman villa they have been excavating alongside the River Frome in Dorset. The first villa was built alongside the river just after the invasion c45ad. The replacement villa on the same site 300 years later was a metre and a half higher and the ground had had to be built up with rubble to prevent it from flooding. </p><p>It turns out that over those 300 years, the Romans ploughed up the chalk downland further upstream for arable crops and it had led to catastrophic soil erosion, which made the site unliveable without being raised 4ft in just 300 years. </p><p>In more modern times, the area was grazed by sheep, which gave us the present landscape we all love so much.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Red Fred, post: 7989794, member: 189"] As a slight diversion, this reminded me of a talk we had the other day about a Roman villa they have been excavating alongside the River Frome in Dorset. The first villa was built alongside the river just after the invasion c45ad. The replacement villa on the same site 300 years later was a metre and a half higher and the ground had had to be built up with rubble to prevent it from flooding. It turns out that over those 300 years, the Romans ploughed up the chalk downland further upstream for arable crops and it had led to catastrophic soil erosion, which made the site unliveable without being raised 4ft in just 300 years. In more modern times, the area was grazed by sheep, which gave us the present landscape we all love so much. [/QUOTE]
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