2024-12-04T04:00:03-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150075565/record-heatwave-is-revealing-hidden-historic-sites-across-britain Alexander Walter 2018-07-30T15:15:00-04:00 >2024-01-23T19:16:08-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/74/748b88d13760677c612bec16169a9d44?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Southern England has been particularly parched, enjoying the driest June on record, but the hot weather has lead to an array of unlikely discoveries across the British Isles. Outlines of ancient and historic sites are being revealed &ndash; some of which haven&rsquo;t been seen in living memory.</p></em><br /><br /><p>"As the grass and crops dry out in the fields, the remains of wood and stone features are being spotted. The effect is caused by soil building up above the foreign material left in the ground over centuries in a way that makes the live material react to the conditions at a different rate to that found within regular soil," <em>The Telegraph</em> explains the phenomenon of 'ghost gardens' which have been appearing across Britain during the country's most extreme heatwave in decades.&nbsp;</p> <p>The increased prevalence of <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/660838/aerial-photography" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">drone and aerial photography</a> has made it much easier to spot them than during previous heatwaves.</p>