linda_joyce: (Default)
Those of my UK friends who are interested in The Roman history of Britain probably know of this already and at least one of my overseas friends, possibly two or three, will be very interested. Very recently students learning to use archeological geophysical instruments found 'new' i.e. previously unknown, ruins in the fields between the amphitheatre at Caerleon and the river Usk and they are enormous. It seems little Caerleon was once the equal of Chester and York. Below is a link to a short article which also gives a small map of the new ruins .

http://www.archaeologydaily.com/news/201008114775/Major-buildings-find-at-Roman-fortress-of-Caerleon.html

I will be heading there with my camera the first fine day we have here.

There is also a dig blog here http://www.britarch.ac.uk/caf/wikka.php?wakka=CLFBlog4

Profile

linda_joyce: (Default)
linda_joyce

February 2014

S M T W T F S
       1
2345678
9101112131415
161718192021 22
232425262728 

Syndicate

RSS Atom

Most Popular Tags

Page Summary

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios