MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Gloria]

Silbury Hill?

[Big Kev]

Building underground access for a Roman building? In that there London? Possibly Billingsgate?

[Tizer]

Yes, Kev! You're on the right track with `underground access for a Roman building'. Not in London but neither is it that far from the Big Smoke. Remember I mentioned a major motorway, and think north.

[Gloria]

Is it somewhere near the great north road?

[Steeplejerk]

Welwyn roman baths A1

[Big Kev]

Welwyn roman baths A1

Beat me to it

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[Steeplejerk]

time on my hands due to the weather give me time to fluke the answer if its correct

[Stanley]

I see you'll be blown off today if indeed you were planning on doing any climbing. Looks like a nasty day coming up. The wind hasn't struck us yet.....

[Tizer]

Welwyn roman baths A1.

Bang on the money, Tom!
Welwyn Roman Baths is a 3rd-century bath complex that formed part of the Dicket Mead Roman villa. The baths lie directly underneath the A1(M) motorway, protected by a steel vault. Welwyn Roman Baths

The article is well worth reading. The site was found by a local archaeologist named Tony Rook in 1960 and he and his wife formed the Welwyn Archaeology Society which spent years exposing the rooms - then they found that the new A1(M) motorway route was going to run over the site!

[Stanley]

What is it? It's an oldie, you've see it before and no doubt will remember it.

[Gloria]

Is it for branding?

[Stanley]

No but very close Gloria, I'm sure you will get it....

[Steeplejerk]

Brazier for castration

[Wendyf]

I'm guessing at disbudding calf horns.

[Stanley]

Tom has it, sorry Wendy but you and Gloria were so close. Its a hot gelding iron......
Next one for shaving?

[Big Kev]

What is it?

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[Stanley]

Is it a cover over a keyhole?

[Big Kev]

Nay.

[PanBiker]

Part of a gate hinge?

[Big Kev]

Nay. It is part of the construction though.

[Tizer]

End of the hinge?

[Big Kev]

I probably didn't word that properly. It's not hinge related but is part of the 'construction' of something.

[Big Kev]

It's also a decorative part of the whole object and there are more than one of them.

[Steeplejerk]

Support plates over the joints in the timber

[Big Kev]

That's pretty much it, they're on a table

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