tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3301757140313310161.post768511804029244231..comments2024-03-14T14:46:53.095+00:00Comments on Nigel Fisher's Brigg Blog: BRIGG IS POPULAR TWO-WHEEL GATEWAY TO THE WOLDSNIGEL FISHERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00105982962344084267noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3301757140313310161.post-61005461192794882222017-04-30T01:41:14.000+01:002017-04-30T01:41:14.000+01:00.....I prefer the idiom, 'the Pathway to the W........I prefer the idiom, 'the Pathway to the Wolds', Nige.<br />Other towns already use the 'Gateway'.<br />Historically, 'Pathway' can be accurately attributed to Brigg...there is a known, but not fully investigated, Bronze Age trackway that formed a route accross the pre-drained Ancholme valley, which led to a Bronze Age settlement somewhere in the locality of the present Market Place/Tesco store.<br />It could be reliably assumed that this pathway would have continued along the ridge leading towards Wrawby and beyond into the Wolds.<br />There is some debate whether the trackway, descibed as 'a massive structure' was continous from somewhere around Castlethorpe to Brigg, or for strategic defensive purposes, terminated in a jetty from whete travellers needed to cross a section of water by boat..ie Brigg Raft.<br />A water gap would reduce the opportunity of an invasive group attacking the Brinze Age settlement en-masse, as well as allowing the river to flow more freely without a trackway creating some sort of dam.<br />Ken Harrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05719906304442070128noreply@blogger.com