Rome was known for its 372 great roads, but recent roadworks have unearthed something very Roman indeed. What started as a regular maintenance dig for Cambridgeshire workers became a historic ...
A team of archaeologists working on a road upgrade project have uncovered a Roman stone coffin weighing the same as a small ...
Evidence points to the possibility that the coffin belonged to an important person, perhaps the head of a prominent family.
Some of the county's Roman roads are footpaths that can be walked ... The abbey was founded in 1138 and built for a community of monks – the building is now Grade I listed.
Construction workers expanding a section of road north of London needed to pause their project after uncovering an unexpected find—a small Roman cemetery dating back roughly 1,500 years.
A Roman road dating between the 2nd and 4th centuries CE was identified during an excavation ... The remains of a small medieval settlement dating to sometime between the 5th and 10th centuries was ...
Until the 1820s, the road used the same crossing, even though the river had changed course – possibly more than a thousand years before. The Roman line carried on straight through to Bourne in ...
Locals are calling for an archaeological survey of Beckenham Place Park after several “exciting” artefacts were found, with ...
The Romans were excellent at building roads and bridges. These allowed soldiers and supplies to move from town to town quickly. Many Roman roads still survive today, 2,000 years later.