tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post1213254508904514778..comments2024-03-11T15:40:37.015+00:00Comments on Theoretical Structural Archaeology: Hadrian's News in BriefGeoff Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01111820035762957610noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-22591024466638095202016-12-14T01:58:05.757+00:002016-12-14T01:58:05.757+00:00Ahah - I thought it was you [- the ip suggested so...Ahah - I thought it was you [- the ip suggested someone further south].<br />Thanks again, you contributions are always incisive - I have amended - but not to - "in favour of a shorter frontier also built of turf because the Romans could not see the wood for the trees" - that would be to impute the standard of scholarship of that Limes. <br />PS. SH, WH, etc. resolution, as promised, soon...Geoff Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01111820035762957610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-37030661667305416902016-12-13T21:15:50.487+00:002016-12-13T21:15:50.487+00:00Encouraged by my pedantic onslaught, my interrogat...Encouraged by my pedantic onslaught, my interrogators have discovered another tiny blemish of purely ritual function, as the ancestors insist.<br />Four lines down : ".. in favour of <b>a</b> shorter .. " militarily logical limes at the Forth-Clyde isthmus.<br />I vaguely recall "dustbubble", but it's been a while, and I am old ..<br />.. how any non-invested mind could discount your excellent ockham-like explanations for the apparent dithering chaos of the (usually anally-retentively completist) Roman State over a simple matter of military engineering, their very special interest, I do not know. Keep it up, Geoff, if only for my sanity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-59306535973645648472016-12-13T13:10:37.163+00:002016-12-13T13:10:37.163+00:00Thank you, Secret Agent of Good, for taking the ti...Thank you, Secret Agent of Good, for taking the time to reading it much more carefully than I what wrote it; it's bin sorted.<br />I suspect the Spelling Nazis declared me verboten years ago, or perhaps sent me to a virtual Isle of Man. I do miss my editor. Geoff Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01111820035762957610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-74977018218177923842016-12-13T12:14:32.276+00:002016-12-13T12:14:32.276+00:00Spelling nazi suspects it should be "no fit ...Spelling nazi suspects it should be "<b>no</b> fit state" in that Birdoswald bullet point. Please burn after reading, etc.<br />Sorry can't remember my fake ID, so "anon" it stays.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com