http://time.com/5340711/heatwave-history...chaeology/
EXCERPT: A record-breaking heatwave in Britain and the Republic of Ireland is making history in more ways than one: dozens of underground archaeological sites have shown up in aerial photography, their positions revealed by temporary “cropmarks” in the parched landscape. As well as known settlements, the conditions have revealed a number of new sites previously lost to human knowledge.
In Scotland, new discoveries include a temporary Roman camp and Iron Age stone structures. In Wales, surveyors flying over a known prehistoric settlement found new evidence of a Roman villa built on the same land. And in Ireland, a historian with a drone is thought to have discovered a new henge – or stone circle – that could be 5,000 years old....
MORE: http://time.com/5340711/heatwave-history...chaeology/
EXCERPT: A record-breaking heatwave in Britain and the Republic of Ireland is making history in more ways than one: dozens of underground archaeological sites have shown up in aerial photography, their positions revealed by temporary “cropmarks” in the parched landscape. As well as known settlements, the conditions have revealed a number of new sites previously lost to human knowledge.
In Scotland, new discoveries include a temporary Roman camp and Iron Age stone structures. In Wales, surveyors flying over a known prehistoric settlement found new evidence of a Roman villa built on the same land. And in Ireland, a historian with a drone is thought to have discovered a new henge – or stone circle – that could be 5,000 years old....
MORE: http://time.com/5340711/heatwave-history...chaeology/