Oak relics reveal the London Bridge of 1500BC

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Archaeologists involved with the three-year Thames Archaeological Survey have identified the remains of an oak bridge constructed across the Thames in the middle Bronze Age, around 1500BC. This bridge consisted of oak posts made from trunks up to 2 ft in diameter and set pointing inwards between 12 degrees and 14 degrees from the horizontal. They supported a bridge platform up to 15 ft wide. Archaeologists now wish to undertake a full-scale investigation of the bridge remains.

History, London, England, Buildings and facilities, Bridges, Bridges (Structures), Bronze age

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How Saddam has drained the life from his precious wetlands and left a people damned

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Around 90% of the marshes of Mesopotamia have disappeared as a result of deliberate drainage since the early 1990s by the Iraqi government and the damming of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. This has had a severe impact on the local environment and on the lifestyle of the Marsh Arabs.

Environmental aspects, Iraq, Marsh ecology

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National Trust 'must shed its middle-class image.'

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It is vital that the National Trust becomes more relevant to ordinary people, according to new Director General Fiona Reynolds. She believes that the National Trust's work should become more widely known.

Officials and employees, Interview, Reynolds, Fiona, National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty

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