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Roman industrial hub discovered on banks of River Wear

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> OSL measures when minerals such as quartz were last exposed to sunlight. Over time, these minerals build up a tiny store of energy while buried. When stimulated with light or heat in the laboratory, the minerals release this energy as a faint glow, which tells experts how long they have been underground.

Now that's just magic, plain and simple.

It sure is. Plus, a little math:

Age (years) = Equivalent dose (Gy) ÷ Dose rate (Gy per year or Gy/ka)

TIL. And that petrified mud wasp nests can be used to date things. Wild.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optically_stimulated_luminesce...

Being it's the Romans, and there are a lot of years of Romans, wouldn't one expect such a hub...

Every Wear?

While I get what you're going for, unfortunately, the pronunciation of Wear means it doesn't work. The correct pronunciation is more like Whee-ah (sounds a little bit like wheel) as opposed to sounding like "where" ;-)

Still works, just Aussie

The vowel/diphthong in wear (as in wearing a towel, rhymes with “care”, “there”) and Wear (homophone with weir, rhymes with “steer”, “near”) are not the same in Australian English.

I guess that's why it's called comedy.

I was thinking Boston could pull it off.

Near enough for a dad joke, and works perfectly visually (a bit like "there are 10 types of people - those who know binary and those who do not"). In fact I find your lack of appreciation of the humour a bit wearing, not to say wear-ed.

Tbere are two types of people: people who divide people into categories and people who don't. https://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2016/02/cartoon-of-da...

So more like “weir”.

That’s the word I was looking for!

"Correct" is doing a lot of work there. Dialects are a thing. I have never heard anyone pronounce it like whee-ah. They would get a lot of chuckles here where it's pronounced the same as where.

Whee-ah is a little emphasis away from sounding like a donkey.

It’s not a dialect thing, the river is literally called “River Wear” irrespective of your accent or dialect. Plymouth (Plih Muth) and Tynemouth (Tyne Mouth) are pronounced completely differently and I don’t call Plymouth “Ply Mouth” just because I live near Tynemouth.

Architecture in ancient cities was subject to nature in rerum natura.

For some reason I was expecting a large wheel hub.

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