Monday, March 10, 2008

'Exceptional' Roman ruins found at Wansford

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An "exceptional" ancient Roman site has been discovered in woodland near Peterborough.

Despite numerous digs and excavations across the region over the past two centuries, the huge site, hidden deep in woods at Bedford Purlieus, had miraculously gone unnoticed.

Early work has only scratched the surface of the Roman remains, but indications have left experts stunned by how well preserved the remains, of what appears to be a building of some importance, are.


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