Mason & Dixon: Dixon's Tutelage and Roman Ruins

[gary webb]

Found this article whilst zoning in web zombie mode:

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1965385-lost-roman-roads-in-uk-discovered-with-3d-lasers/

Reminds me of this passage in M&D (pg. 219) First Picador Edition: January
2004:

"Over Wearside, here at Nightfall, exactly upon this Edge between sunlight
too bright to see much by and moonlight providing another reading in
coal-blue or luminous bone,- when spirits also are said in these parts to
come out,- so beneath them now do the Dark Age Maps, the long, dogged Roman
Palimpsests, the earlier contours of Brigantum itself, emerge at a certain
combination of low Sun-angle and Scholarly Altitude above the fell,-..."
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