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Showing posts with label Roman settlement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roman settlement. Show all posts

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Archaeologists find 10,000 objects from Roman London


By Maev Kennedy, for The Guardian

Scores of archaeologists working in a waterlogged trench through the wettest summer and coldest winter in living memory have recovered more than 10,000 objects from Roman London, including writing tablets, amber, a well with ritual deposits of pewter, coins and cow skulls, thousands of pieces of pottery, a unique piece of padded and stitched leather – and the largest collection of lucky charms in the shape of phalluses ever found on a single site.

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Roman settlement uncovered by builders in Flintshire

A substantial Roman settlement has been uncovered during work on a major building development in Flintshire.

The find at the Croes Atti project near Flint has unearthed a section of Roman road, pottery and evidence of an industrial complex processing lead and silver mined at nearby Halkyn Mountain.