BAJR
19th July 2010, 04:25 PM
The foundations of a large Roman masonry building, thought to be part of a villa, have been found at Bredon's Norton, Worcestershire, during a series of excavations along a new 17 km water pipeline being built for Severn Trent Water. The 15 m wide pipeline easement clipped one corner of the building to reveal a room with a stone-flagged floor, sections of painted wall plaster, and stone peg-tiles from the roof, all indicating a building of high quality and status.
The building was terraced into the hill-slope and the footings consequently survive to a height of nearly 1 m. The pipeline easement on either side of the masonry building is busy with archaeology, including numerous rectangular enclosure ditches and post lines of Iron Age and/or Roman date, and a small number of human burials - a crouched burial, and a cremation in a pottery urn have been found so far. A coin of Magnentius and Decentius, minted AD 351-353, has provided useful dating evidence.....
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The building was terraced into the hill-slope and the footings consequently survive to a height of nearly 1 m. The pipeline easement on either side of the masonry building is busy with archaeology, including numerous rectangular enclosure ditches and post lines of Iron Age and/or Roman date, and a small number of human burials - a crouched burial, and a cremation in a pottery urn have been found so far. A coin of Magnentius and Decentius, minted AD 351-353, has provided useful dating evidence.....
read on here >> http://thehumanjourney.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=556&Itemid=40
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