Re: Terrain Challenge #19 (Score: 1) by Senior_Drill on Thu Nov 19, 2009 7:51 am (User Info | Send a Message) | My observations:
The complex in the top left corner of the photo (it could be North East, but I would not put rotating the image past Mafi ;) ) could be, as Buck suggests, a Barracks, but it could also be a govenmental compound or university. There is a garden with what could be a chapel to the east and then a sports or parade field farther east. Odd dark patch/pitch at the top of it. No obvious football markings to gain scale from.
The hill to the south does indeed look man-made and is a preserved site. The tracings amongst the large trees suggests an old hill fort.
What Buck calls a Large Land House also has the outline of an old castle (with more modern sturctures north of it). Is the round object a silo or a bailey?
Up by the bridge, which has very old style pier protection is another old, preserved fortification. The sturcture below it could be another chapel. The two rows of grey (slate?) roofed buildings look like a barracks with a central parade field, though could be apartments today.
To the south, at what appears to be the mouth of the waterway is another complex that once could have been yet another fortification, but now screams "Resort!". Note the breakwaters and small structures on the center beach.
The boats on the river are small in comparison to those at the dock on the left side. While the is a lot of traffic on the water, scale suggests most are pleasure craft rather than shipping and transport.
The Google mosaic trasitions the water color, but what is notable is the lack of beach on the larger body of water and lack of a beachfront road or highway along the water front; only farm access tracks.
The port authority area south of the bridge shows several medium sized commercial ships tied up to the quay.
Everything suggests that this area has been heavily defended through many centuries. |
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