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Google Earth found a 1,000-year-old fishing trap
Thursday, March 19, 2009

The 260m long construction is thought to have been built 1,000 years ago, using large rocks placed on a river bed. They found a huge V-shape was clearly visible on the satellite images and divers were sent down to examine the structure.

Google Earth to narrow in on its precise location. Scientists estimate the stone fish trap to be 1,000 years old, the oldest underwater structure made by man, discovered in Wales. Scientists say, the sea level was much lower thousands of years ago, and the original fish trap was above water. Only a few ancient fish traps remain in Wales, once a thriving coastal fishing community.

Scientists believe large numbers of people worked together to erect the trap and it allowed them to catch plentiful numbers of fish for their supper. The trap is believed to have been made from locally quarried rock, or possibly boulders carried in by glaciers during the last Ice Age.

Archaeologists say medieval communities constructed stone fishing traps to catch fish and scooped them out with nets as the tide rolled out. This particular stone trap is larger than normal and would have required many medieval laborers to haul in the heavy boulders to construct it. The trap in the estuary of the River Teifi, near Cardigan, West Wales, lay undiscovered for a millennium until a strange underwater shape was spotted from a plane flying overhead.

Unlike the previous case, this discovery is real.



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1 comments:

Abd Essamad said... March 25, 2009 at 9:19 PM  

Hey
i find your blog realy useful keep going
i have also a blog about google earth
hope you will find it useful

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