Roman industrial hub discovered on banks of River Wear
durham.ac.uk50 points by andsoitis 4 days ago
50 points by andsoitis 4 days ago
> OSL measures when minerals such as quartz were last exposed to sunlight. Over time, these minerals build up a tiny store of energy while buried. When stimulated with light or heat in the laboratory, the minerals release this energy as a faint glow, which tells experts how long they have been underground.
Now that's just magic, plain and simple.
Being it's the Romans, and there are a lot of years of Romans, wouldn't one expect such a hub...
Every Wear?
While I get what you're going for, unfortunately, the pronunciation of Wear means it doesn't work. The correct pronunciation is more like Whee-ah (sounds a little bit like wheel) as opposed to sounding like "where" ;-)
Near enough for a dad joke, and works perfectly visually (a bit like "there are 10 types of people - those who know binary and those who do not"). In fact I find your lack of appreciation of the humour a bit wearing, not to say wear-ed.
Still works, just Aussie
The vowel/diphthong in wear (as in wearing a towel, rhymes with “care”, “there”) and Wear (homophone with weir, rhymes with “steer”, “near”) are not the same in Australian English.
Architecture in ancient cities was subject to nature in rerum natura.
For some reason I was expecting a large wheel hub.