Burnham Overy Big Spring Tide
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Florence 2023 – Santa Croce – High-water mark of 1…
Florence 2023 – €1 extra for victims of the flood
Desert flood
Florence 2023 – High-water marks
Flood Outside A Hall
Dam, 1874
Russian River
Bit wet for a picnic
Murray flood
Bad Münstereifel nach der Flut
Crete 2021 – Warning, in case of flood, don’t pass,…
Diga di Santa Caterina
Diga di Santa Caterina - 1997
Pegwell Bay Hotel. (Overlooks the sea)
Ruta 40 - "Zona de Badenes"
Rio de las Conchas - flooded
Rio de las Conchas - muddy waters
Salta - Rio Rosario
Salta - Rio Rosario
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'Land unter' im Schwellenmätteli,,
Bern – Schiffländte
Flooded Fence Wednesday.
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Flooded road
swans in the flood
flooding by the railway
Land unter!
Arizona Spillway - 1986
gbw - Grindon Lough and the Stanegate
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Silbury Hill B&W Edit After Bill Brandt
Silbury Hill is a part of the complex of Neolithic monuments around Avebury in Wiltshire (which includes the West Kennet long barrow and the Sanctuary). It was built around 2,600 - 2,400 BC, which is later than the other sites in the area.
To design, organise, and construct this mound shows the technical skill of the age and reveals strong and prolonged control over labour and resources. At 129 ft high, Silbury Hill is the tallest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe and one of the largest in the world. There is nothing inside it other than chalk, clay, rubble and soil, and there is no big hole to account for the materials used in construction. It would have taken 500 labourers 15 years to complete. The flattened top is 100ft in diameter.
The area immediately surrounding the monument is lower than the level of the land around it. The presence of natural springs indicate a moat or reservoir. In fact, the mound sits in a dip in the landscape; it would have been an unusual choice for a strategic defensive site. Perhaps the site itself was important to the builders.
Nikon D2Xs and AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6G lens.
To design, organise, and construct this mound shows the technical skill of the age and reveals strong and prolonged control over labour and resources. At 129 ft high, Silbury Hill is the tallest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe and one of the largest in the world. There is nothing inside it other than chalk, clay, rubble and soil, and there is no big hole to account for the materials used in construction. It would have taken 500 labourers 15 years to complete. The flattened top is 100ft in diameter.
The area immediately surrounding the monument is lower than the level of the land around it. The presence of natural springs indicate a moat or reservoir. In fact, the mound sits in a dip in the landscape; it would have been an unusual choice for a strategic defensive site. Perhaps the site itself was important to the builders.
Nikon D2Xs and AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6G lens.
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