Man made construct
Look around you. Outside I mean. How much do you know about your own backyard? I cannot speak for every place I’ve lived put in a couple of them I spent enough time there to get a sense of what had come before. When we built our first house we had to bring our own dirt with us. The lot was essentially sitting on a rock. In terms of history here in Canada that means that when you go back a couple of centuries that was it. A rock. At my current location the ground is a little more plastic. However local history tells me that before the current neighborhood there was not very much. I have found some old photographs that confirms my belief. There had not been a house on this piece of land before hours. Simply a lane going down to a lower field. I bring this up as I watched some of those wonderful documentaries out of England where they spend hours and hours trying to figure out where the castle went. Turns out they had a lot of castles over the years but because they were built by man and then subject to the whims of war, many have disappeared. My documentary, today is from a small village on the coast that was covered by sand. Rather quickly. I know how that works because I live close to sand dunes and they move all the time. But for those trying to discover the remains of a former townsite they have to move carefully. Any place that was covered over by sand is dangerous. Not only do the sands move but when you try to dig your efforts can fall in on top of you. Not ideal for research. I have only watched the first section of the program and I imagine that by the time it ends I will have a much better idea a place that I will probably never visit. But it allows me to be more reassured about my own conclusions of this place. We have no mountains locally. Just the ocean. Because someone before me had named the hill outside I can look around and imagine what they saw two centuries ago for the curious bump in a field. No elevation and as I look down hill from here I have to tell myself that the field below is a man made construct. Dugout by horse and plow within my own lifetime.
