Bourne Hill Iron Age settlement

We need more house and more are going to be built. Always last minute with these objections, why did they not start digging years ago if they knew about it.
 
We are going backwards on planning to a free for all as the Government is incapable of development a coherent strategy for meeting the nations development needs in a sustainable manner. On the deeds of my house - Dere Street is a few yards to the west of my house and in the 1950s it is shown as still being a surfaced track (2000 years old). Unfortunately shortly after the area was open casted for coal and there is no record of the history remains. Luckily the local roam fort was saved as the local farmer refused to sell out to the Coal Board.
 
I believe there’s a tunnel from the top of that hill that heads towards Rossall church. Apparently there’s a slight bump in Amounderness Way where you can feel the tunnel.

A Roman road was found on the site of those new houses near the Golden Eagle. Apparently it’s okay to build on top of the road, providing it isn’t destroyed or removed. They reckon it preserves the road. I’m not so sure I approve, but it’s all about the money and Gov. build stats.
 
We’re not here for very long are we, nevertheless, very interesting. It makes you wonder why the Romans were in Thornton. Presumably the Wyre estuary to the sea
 
Wasnt Dowbridge close at Kirkham an old Roman fort or settlement.
I heard the mossites or moss hogs lead by martonmossers decendents stopped the Romans entering Blackpool.
 
True story.

The roman road from somewhere in Leeds to Ribchester was lost over the pennines, a customer of mine wanted to build his daughter a house/barn in a field he owned just on the edge of Barnoldswick and when they were prepping the site found the old Roman road. What did he do? Invite the history teams in to investigate or dig the road up at night? He chose the latter.

I could actually take people to where the road left his land. Still buried I presume.
 
I have just been visiting the limestone karst caves of Northern Spain for their Palaeolithic paintings. The most famous is the Altamira Cave discovered near Santillana del Mar in 1868 and first explored properly in 1880. The oldest drawings are dated ca 35,000 years old, the renowned bison paintings to ca 13,500 years old.

Basically, the early Homo sapiens were sheltering and living in that cave and decorating it for a continuous period of over 20,000 years. Something like a thousand generations. That makes Roman settlements seem a bit like yesterday.

It wasn’t until ca 1900 that scientists accepted these were prehistoric and subsequently advanced dating methods proved that. There will be more to discover as some of the caves were only found in the 1970s and later. The paintings that have survived well are those where the entrance collapsed thousands of years ago and preserved the environment inside.
 
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Many people have reported to have seen the apparition of a monk and a headless man. It is also believed that there is the spirit of a woman who roams the hill as well as a ghostly horse.

Would you buy a house there?
 
Tories are killing our past.

The Fylde coast is a world of undiscovered Iron age, Roman and Saxon history. There seems to be no will to investigate anything in our area.
 
Curryman said:
Many people have reported to have seen the apparition of a monk and a headless man. It is also believed that there is the spirit of a woman who roams the hill as well as a ghostly horse.

Would you buy a house there?
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We had issues in a house near the Sandyforth Arms. It happened to be on the intersection of an old Roman road. Might be related, might not. But I did find a Roman coin in my bedroom which ‘appeared’ overnight
 
tangerine_neil said:
We had issues in a house near the Sandyforth Arms. It happened to be on the intersection of an old Roman road. Might be related, might not. But I did find a Roman coin in my bedroom which ‘appeared’ overnight
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Spooky, I do believe there is more to this than some people believe having had a few weird experiences.
 
Ribchester was incredibly important as it was the first navigable point across the Ribble for wagons etc going North to South on the route up to the western side of Hadrians Wall
So nearby ports would warrant a road
I have always though Skippool was the most likely location however if there is an Iron Age Settlement at Bourne that could be the answer
 
Verfict is out on Portus Setantiorum (? sp)
rumous drom F.wood fishermen agaes ago that on very rare low tides near wyre light timbers could be seen in the water - geographically it might be in the right place re the sandbank shaping on maps
 
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