CROPMARKS—HUNDREDS OF NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES.

CROPMARKS—HUNDREDS OF NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES. As this article reports, there has been a drought in England and the result has been the discovery of several hundred new archaeological sites. The drought enables aerial photography of “cropmarks which occur when wheat or barley crops grown over ancient buried sites at a different rate.” The photos in the article show, for example, the outlines of a Roman fort and of the main road through it. The enormous number of new sites for research is exiting, of course, but I find it romantic that there are so many vestiges of the past just below the surface of the earth, ready to show themselves with a change in the weather.