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  • 'Amazing discovery' that helped build Roman Britain

    08/13/2024 9:43:19 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 7 replies
    BBC News, Wiltshire ^ | 6 days ago (August 7, 2024) | Sophie Parker
    The site of a kiln that was used in the building of Roman Britain's second-largest town is being excavated.Archaeologists and volunteers have spent some of the past three years working to uncover more of the kiln, which they have said was used to build Cirencester, in Gloucestershire, and other places.Tiles from the site at Brandier, a tiny hamlet near Minety in Wiltshire, have markings found on artefacts over a large area - as far as Old Sarum, near Hereford, the Cotswolds and Reading...Neil Holbrook - CEO of Cotswold Archaeology which is running the dig - explained that 200 years ago...