Friday, 31 August 2012

Skywatch Friday: Roaming in the Roman granary


Believe it or not, this is the site of Roman Manchester- these are the reconstructed foundations of a granary. Manchester sadly can't offer much from its Roman era, other than the reconstructed fort and granary at Castlefield. 

If you want to see more authentic Roman ruins I suggest you visit Chester or York. The lovely city of York is covered in an excellent daily photo and history blog by my good friend Deb, at Ginnels Gates and Ghosts: http://yorkdailypicture.blogspot.co.uk

Follow the link for some spectacular Skywatch Friday posts around the world. Also a reminder that tomorrow is September's City Daily Photo theme day with the theme being people-watching. You can link to it at: http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com.au .

13 comments:

  1. Nice thing about skywatch is that you can learn something. Here about the romans in Manchester of all places.Nice post.

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  2. Nonetheless fascinating to be looking at the remains of a structure built during the Roman era!

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  3. Great setting, beautiful image!

    Happy Skywatch,
    Merisi

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  4. This is really nice Chrissy. Wonderful!

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  5. really cool capture,i've never tought manchester was an old roman site and was founded by them,but it's easy to understand form the word castra(chester),castrum mean military field in ancient roman language,the ancient manchester name was MAGNUM(big)CASTRUM(military field) if i remember well from my school remembers,thank to suggest even the beautiful city of york blog i've subscribed quickly.

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  6. Well believe me, over here in the colonies we don't have much in the way way of Roman ruins either! These are nice, a photographic opportunity.

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  7. See what the Romans did for us eh, forts and granaries, interesting post. Like the new profile pic with the Olympic rings Chrissy, and thanks for the blog-check ;)

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  8. Wonderful mean to measure time and life.

    Please have a good new month ahead.

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  9. Hi there - if the truth be told I dont think there are many places in the UK where if you look hard enough you cant find some evidence of the past. I just wish people had realised there was more to British History than just the Romans "when I was a lad"

    Cheers - Stewart M (in distinctly Roman free Australia)

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  10. Love the castle look of that back wall. Nice photo and interesting information.

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