Romans in Britain
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From the Northern Echo: A SOLID link to the real Roman past has been uncovered beneath one of the region’s greatest places of worship. During construction work for a new visitor development in the undercroft of York Minster a team of archaeologists have unearthed an intact section of Roman road. The road is believed to…
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From a University of Kent news release: The department of Classical and Archaeological Studies at the University of Kent has helped confirm a helmet unearthed in Kent dates back to the 1st century BC. The helmet, found in farmland near Canterbury in September, is made of bronze and was discovered alongside a brooch by an…
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From the Teesdale Mercury … pity no photos: A major archaeological discovery was made in Teesdale after men working on a £1million spa found the remains of a Roman building – along with coins, pottery, glass and a roof tile with a Roman handprint on it. The discovery was made by a construction team digging…
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From the BBC: A Roman cemetery containing several human burials has been found during work on a new water mains in Somerset. The finds were made by archaeologists during the laying of a four-mile (7km) long mains between Banwell and Hutton. Among the skeletons, which have been exhumed for further study, there was one in…
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Nice feature at LiveScience: Hadrian’s Wall: Northern Frontier of the Roman Empire
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