Anglo Saxon Gardens at the Time of the Norman Conquest

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The advent of the Normans in the later half of the 11th century substantially modified The Anglo-Saxon ways of living. At the time of the conquest, the Normans surpassed the Anglo-Saxons in building design and cultivation. But home life, household architecture, and decoration were out of the question until the Normans taken over the entire populace. Castles were more basic constructions and often erected on blustery hills, where their people spent both time and space to practicing offense and defense, while monasteries were large stone buildings, mostly situated in the widest, most fruitful hollows. The serene method of gardening was impractical in these bleak bastions. Berkeley Castle is probably the most complete model in existence today of the early Anglo-Norman form of architecture. It is said that the keep was developed during William the Conqueror's time. As a method of deterring attackers from tunneling beneath the walls, an immense terrace encompasses the building. A scenic bowling green, covered in grass and enclosed by battlements cut out of an ancient yew hedge, creates one of the terraces.

Find Peace with Outdoor Water Features

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You can find peace and tranquility by just having water in your garden. The noise in your neighborhood can be masked by the delicate sounds of a fountain. This is a place where you can entertain yourself and enjoy nature. Considered a great healing element, many water therapies use big bodies of water such as seas, oceans and rivers in their treatments. If you desire a celestial spot to go to relax your body and mind, get yourself a pond or water fountain.

Water Delivery Solutions in Historic Rome

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Aqua Anio Vetus, the first raised aqueduct founded in Rome, started supplying the individuals living in the hills with water in 273 BC, although they had relied on natural springs up until then. If residents residing at higher elevations did not have access to springs or the aqueduct, they’d have to depend on the other existing solutions of the day, cisterns that gathered rainwater from the sky and subterranean wells that received the water from below ground. From the beginning of the sixteenth century, water was routed to Pincian Hill through the subterranean channel of Acqua Vergine. As originally constructed, the aqueduct was provided along the length of its channel with pozzi (manholes) constructed at regular intervals. The manholes made it easier to maintain the channel, but it was also possible to use buckets to pull water from the aqueduct, as we discovered with Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi when he operated the property from 1543 to 1552, the year he passed away. He didn’t get sufficient water from the cistern that he had manufactured on his property to collect rainwater. To give himself with a much more useful way to obtain water, he had one of the manholes opened up, giving him access to the aqueduct below his property.