{"id":1911,"date":"2009-03-21T06:18:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T11:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2009-03-21T06:18:10","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T11:18:10","slug":"news-of-the-weir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1911","title":{"rendered":"News of the Weir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-1162395\/Google-Earth-reveals-fish-trap-rocks-1-000-years-ago-British-coast.html\">Google Earth reveals fish trap made from rocks 1,000 years ago off British coast<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[M]odern technology has revealed this ancient fish trap, used at the time of the Norman Conquest. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They didn&#8217;t <em>actually<\/em> find it on Google Earth, but the image was there<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although it was only recently spotted on aerial photographs, an armchair archaeologist could have discovered the trap on Google Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Google said the V-shaped structure has been visible on its collection of satellite and aerial photos since at least December 2006.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sure enough, if you point Google Earth to the right spot, you can see it.  Use these coordinates:<br \/>\nN 52\u00b0 06.550 W 004\u00b0 42.450<\/p>\n<p>Works in <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=N+52%C2%B0+06.550+W+004%C2%B0+42.450&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=52.109167,-4.707491&amp;spn=0.010068,0.018175&amp;t=h&amp;z=16&amp;iwloc=addr\">Google Maps<\/a>, too<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Earth reveals fish trap made from rocks 1,000 years ago off British coast [M]odern technology has revealed this ancient fish trap, used at the time of the Norman Conquest. They didn&#8217;t actually find it on Google Earth, but the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1911\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-other-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}