{"id":8327,"date":"2022-03-11T17:24:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T15:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=8327"},"modified":"2022-03-11T17:24:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T15:24:50","slug":"the-pont-flavien-near-toulouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/the-pont-flavien-near-toulouse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pont Flavien near Toulouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\n<p>Not too far from Aix en Provence you can find a Roman bridge with two arches under which to pass as you cross. I expect that the stones from others were quarried and so this is the last surviving example. If we check the sources we might find mentions of more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Pont Flavien (Flavian Bridge), a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Roman?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Roman<\/a> bridge over the river Touloubre (France), built in the late C1st AD. It has triumphal arches at either end &#8211; the only surviving example with arches like this, though others probably existed in antiquity (? Archaeology Travel) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E1POBqgfxo\">pic.twitter.com\/E1POBqgfxo<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Dr Jo Ball (@DrJEBall) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrJEBall\/status\/1501998794036109319?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I located it on Google Maps for you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d2892.127812199574!2d5.040800415161762!3d43.541377567673!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x12b60321b0c028c9%3A0x3c0f1adcb96b78b8!2sPont%20Flavien!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sch!4v1647012031323!5m2!1sen!2sch\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Not too far from Aix en Provence you can find a Roman bridge with two arches under which to pass as you cross. I expect that the stones from others were quarried and so this is the last surviving example. If we check the sources we might find mentions of more. I located it on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4241,4944,535,5],"tags":[4964,4963,1018,4945],"class_list":["post-8327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archeology","category-archeology-tweets","category-france","category-travel","tag-antiquity","tag-arches","tag-bridge","tag-roman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8328,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8327\/revisions\/8328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}