Below the Surface
Sam Aurelius Milam III
Some time ago, I watched a documentary about some archeologists who were looking for signs of an old Anglo-Saxon village in a certain location in the English countryside. According to local lore, such a village had existed there, long ago. That’s why they were searching in that location. The archeologists had a ground-penetrating detection device. I don’t know how it worked, but one of them carried it
back and forth, all over the place. After that, they printed
the results of the search. The pictures showed some vague variations in color, possibly indicating underground features. Since the
Anglo-Saxons built mostly with wood, the archeologists expected that
the remains of the ancient village might be limited to subtle differences
in the soil, maybe indicating such things as the locations of previous
support posts for wood structures. One interesting feature that they
noticed in their pictures was a long straight variation in color.
They speculated that it might indicate the location of an ancient wall.
They got out their trowels, brushes, buckets, and filter screens, and started digging. For the first several inches, they didn’t see any variation in the soil that corresponded to the color variation in their picture.
Several inches down, they encountered a subtle but detectable difference. It was about a foot or so wide. Concentrating on that, they opened a very straight, very regular trench. They didn’t find any artifacts, not even broken bits of pottery or fragments of tools. When
they got down to about 2 feet, they encountered the top suface of a
black plastic pipe, seemingly a sewer line. They laughed, acted
embarrassed, filled in the trench, and moved on to dig elsewhere. They didn’t give any further thought to the pipe. They should have. Why was there a sewer pipe in such a remote location? Why did the indication of the trench begin several inches below a seemingly undisturbed surface? If the pipe was the remnants of the septic tank system of a previous structure, then the structure must have been historically recent, because black plastic pipe is historically recent. Yet, even though the same family had lived on that estate for several generations, nobody had any knowledge of any such previous structure in the vicinity of the pipe. Professional archeologists, who were specifically looking for the remains of structures, didn’t find any indication of such a structure. Thus, it doesn’t seem likely that there had been any historically recent structures in that location. Maybe the pipe was part of the septic tank system for the manor house. However, even considering the drain field, a septic tank system doesn’t usually go more than a few yards from the house that it serves. The manor house was a good mile from the location of the pipe. Thus, that doesn’t seem likely as an explanation for the presence of the pipe. It doesn’t seem likely that the pipe was part of a public sewer system, to which the manor house might have been connected.
The archeologists were digging in a very large meadow, at least 20 acres, maybe larger. There weren’t any other structures anywhere nearby, only scattered bunches of trees in the distance. They were miles from town, or from any other residences. Why would there be a public sewer system in such a remote location? Consider this idea. Maybe the pipe had been installed from below the surface, not from above. That would explain the undisturbed surface. Maybe, below the pipe, is one of those secret underground transportation systems about which some people like to speculate. Why would the builders of such a system put a black plastic
pipe above their tunnel? What’s the first thing that a man would
do if he was digging a hole and found a sewer pipe? He’d stop digging.
Maybe the pipe was installed there to discourage people from digging there.
Why would anybody ridicule such an idea? People have been digging
tunnels for thousands of years. Such tunnels exist all over the planet.
People are still digging tunnels today. Many of the old ones were intended to be secret. Some of the modern ones probably are,
too. So, why would somebody be ridiculed as a conspiracy theorist
for suggesting something so obviously possible? Of course people
are still digging tunnels today, and some of them are probably being
dug in secret. We don’t have any idea what exists under our feet,
way down below the surface.
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