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  • 'Remarkable' concealed Roman villa unearthed [Oxfordshire]

    04/02/2024 7:21:14 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 6 replies
    BBC News ^ | March 26, 2024 | unattributed
    Archaeologists from the Red River Archaeology Group came across the complex while working on a Barratt and David Wilson Homes housing development at Brookside Meadows in Grove near Wantage, Oxfordshire.The site sits on a landscape inhabited since the Bronze Age which has been described as "artefact-rich".The group's project officer said it was "an important centre of activities for a long time".The archaeologists said the villa complex was richly decorated with painted plaster and mosaics.Finds also include a monumental hall-like "aisled building", which is a type of structure that seems to date from the late 1st Century AD.This building is immediately...