GLADMAN wrote:
Do we honestly believe BA engineers did not possess the skill required to accurately survey the landscape? Really?
No, not at all. But not surveying for the same reasons surveyors do now.There were no maps or drawn plans, so surveying things to ensure that they are accurately placed when viewed on a map would seem irrelevant.
They certainly did not have theodolytes, so any horizontal measurements would have to be taken by either using rope or twine, or rods, etc (which would not lead to equidistance on a map for the reasons already mentioned), or by pacing (which is even less likely to result in accurate equidistance when viewed on a map).