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21st March 2010, 01:17 PM
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| The weird one  Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: UK: ENGLAND:
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| Favourite Historical Site My favourite historical/archaeological sites to visit have to be Bamburgh castle and Rievaulx and Jervaulx Abbeys. A lot of it's to do with the amazing settings, I think! Bamburgh is right by the North Sea. So... what's your favourite site? |
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21st March 2010, 03:46 PM
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| Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: UK: ENGLAND:
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| Re: Favourite Historical Site Don't really have a favourite but I'd really like to visit Vindolanda. I've fancied the trip since I saw it on telly but it is a bit far away for an easy trip. |
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21st March 2010, 03:56 PM
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| Registered User  Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Ireland
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| Re: Favourite Historical Site As for sites I've actually been to, the Coliseum and Pompeii were fairly impressive. Italy and Rome in general are treasure troves of stunning historical sites and sights. I'd love to visit Petra though. That'd kick ass. |
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21st March 2010, 04:04 PM
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| Registered User  Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Greater London
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| Re: Favourite Historical Site Quote:
And while you're in Northumberland you can see Newcastle Castle Keep! which is so much more explorable than you'd think from the outside. I wish I'd been 10 when I first found it. Oh, historical sites are so much fun. Caerphilly Castle. A slighly broken-down, slightly restored masterpiece, with a wonky tower and no guard rails, and no no-entry signs. | |
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21st March 2010, 04:51 PM
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| Truth. Order. Moderation.  | Re: Favourite Historical Site Durham Cathedral, particularly in the snow, for its magnificence and grandeur. The setting is incomparable - try arriving on the train for a first visit. Michelham Priory in East Sussex for its sense of peace and timelessness. |
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21st March 2010, 08:44 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006
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| Re: Favourite Historical Site Quote:
 My favourite - the infinite Palatine Hill and Roman Forum.  | |
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22nd March 2010, 06:18 AM
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| Ubi amici, ibi opes...  Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Southampton
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| Re: Favourite Historical Site Castlerigg Stone Circle, between Skiddaw, Blencathra and Helvellyn in the Lake District. Just a simple stone circle in itself - but oh, the setting...  |
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22nd March 2010, 05:11 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Shropshire
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| Re: Favourite Historical Site Quote:
 If you wait for things to settle down you may never get there.  | |
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22nd March 2010, 05:54 PM
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| Bearly Believable  Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: UK: ENGLAND:
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| Re: Favourite Historical Site I've only seen the Coliseum from the outside, at night and through the rain; but it was still impressive. (The rest of our time in Rome, 36+ hours, was spent in a hotel preparing presentations and at the customer's site giving them: not at all historic.) But I have been lucky enough to see Petra (stunning) and Egypt (various places between Cairo and Abu Simbel). Apart from the history oozing from the stones, there's the huge scale of the sites (such as the three pyramids at Giza and the simply vast temple at Karnak); there are the massive carvings and statues. And most of all, there's the setting: the Nile flowing through rich farmland, barrent deserts close on either side**. It feels like a land of magic, even when you know how it came to be. Truly a land of wonder. My favourite site is Giza and, in particular, the Great Pyramid (that of Khufu). Even with its outer casing removed, I found it hard not to marvel at what comparatively few people, with simple tools, managed to create. Both impressive and (when inside) surprisingly intimate, it is - there is no doubt about it - a folly; and yet it's also a monument to the human desire - another folly, perhaps - to find its place in the universe, whatever the cost. ** - The transition to desert is abrupt, only ten or so metres as the grass gives way to sand and rock. |
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22nd March 2010, 08:35 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006
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22nd March 2010, 09:17 PM
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| Scottish Roman  Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Perth and Kinross
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| Re: Favourite Historical Site I've a soft spot for Ardoch fort, near Braco. It's one of the largest Roman forts in Europe and both armies at Bannockburn could've fitted in there comfortably. The site of Bannockburn itself, of course........ |
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