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Finding “Great Long Dole” – maps of the fort area, old and new

Posted on by Roger Pearse

The old Victoria History of the County of Suffolk, on the landscape near Felixstowe Roman fort, refers to a close known as “Great Long Dole”, which apparently bore that name in 1907.  This gave no results in Google.  Fortunately the old Ordinance Survey maps are online (although for some peculiar reason the new ones are […]

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More on the “Errington manuscript”

Posted on by Roger Pearse

I’ve written a couple of posts about the remains of the Roman fort of the Saxon Shore, lying under the water offshore at Felixstowe.  I’ve been trying to get hold of a survey report from 1969, done by members of the British Sub-Aqua club.  This seems to be the last work done on the fort.  […]

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From my diary

Posted on by Roger Pearse

I’ve had rather a busy week, ending with a rather splendid college reunion.  But of course everything else has gone out of the window, and I also have rather a large sleep debt to pay off. Today brings another chunk of translation of an early Latin Vita of St George.  Chapters 9 and 11 are […]

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From my diary

Posted on by Roger Pearse

It is Saturday evening here.  I’m just starting to wind down, in preparation for Sunday and a complete day away from the computer, from all the chores and all my hobbies and interests.  I shall go and walk along the seafront instead, and rest and relax and recharge. Sometimes it is very hard to do […]

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