James Bond on possible Roman-era canals in the Wash/Fenland area, incl the Glen, via http://www.amazon.co.uk/Waterways-Canal-Building-Medieval-England-Archaeology/dp/019872313X/ …pic.twitter.com/6HHL3sATvg
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James Bond on possible Roman-era canals in the Wash/Fenland area, incl the Glen, via http://www.amazon.co.uk/Waterways-Canal-Building-Medieval-England-Archaeology/dp/019872313X/ …pic.twitter.com/6HHL3sATvg
@caitlinrgreen I'm sure some of these were serving Roman salt making industries around the wash, to shift the produce inland.
@pighilltweets Certainly not impossible, seems a credible interpretation to me! :)
@caitlinrgreen Yesterday I was beside another River Glen at Yeavering !
@Tweets2CV The only other river with a derivation from British *glanos, OW Glein! :) Coincidence? (probably, but hey! ;) )
@caitlinrgreen ...date to post-conquest times and the commissioners of sewers. Romans, eh?
@Geograph_Bob I know, intriguing, eh? As suggested by Fenland Survey etc. Lots of Roman/early AS activity where it enters fenland too :)
@caitlinrgreen Heard of the Bourne-Morton canal, but not about the Glen. It is, of course, artificially banked now, which I imagined to...
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