Storage pits

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Storage pits by Bill Nicholls as part of the Geograph project.

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Storage pits

Image: © Bill Nicholls Taken: 12 Aug 2011

These, it turns out, were storage pits for grain, the Iron Age Britons used to use them, the Romans built over them. At the present time this area is now a construction site, I managed to get these photos before development started.

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Image Location

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Latitude
51.568053
Longitude
-1.309873