When considering European history we're often looking at a sweep over two thousand years plus. In Leon in North western Spain, I noticed a standing wall about two thousand years old, from Roman times. Scientific studies show that the Roman form of cement used a kind of volcanic ash that made it stronger than today's cement, I understand.
What I never really thought about, but what makes sense, is that certain English cities, in England, trace their initial development to Roman settlements from approximately 2000 years ago. We know in Christianity many of the very first Christians were sent by their first manager to proselytise in England. But the Romans barely got there before them.
One such town is Chichester in Sussex on the southern coast.
Anglo-Saxon periodEdit
Notice this penny (in Spanish penique). I understand Cnut the Great, the monarch at the time of minting this penny was one of the maurading Danish invaders. They generally invaded around the northeast of England is my understanding. My knowledge of English history is not that great.
"Chichester - Wikipedia" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichester
On 21 April 2017 it was announced that a second parchment manuscript copy of the United States Declaration of Independence, now termed The Sussex Declaration, had been discovered in the archives.[59][60]
Chichester has one of the highest rates of empty homes in England, with 1 in every 17 houses vacant. In October 2020, 3,444 houses were vacant, of which 3,302 were second homes.
Wow off topic, is it ADHD make a buck for big pharma time? Who knew 007 Roger Moore was so illness plagued? He really has lifelong serious health conditions by the looks of it:
Moore was a long-term sufferer of kidney stones and as a result was briefly hospitalised during the making of Live and Let Die in 1973 and again whilst filming the 1979 film Moonraker.
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