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Posted on 08/15/2010 11:05:10 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists have discovered several large buildings at the fortress of Caerleon in south Wales, one of Britain's best known Roman sites. The major discovery was made by chance by students learning to use geophysical equipment. Cardiff University's Peter Guest said the find was "totally unexpected"... Caerleon (Isca), which dates from AD 75, is one of three permanent legionary fortresses in the UK, and was used for 200 years. The others at Chester and York - are mostly buried and difficult to excavate... The students were using the geophysical equipment in fields outside the Roman fortress - an area that was not thought to have been extensively occupied in the Roman period. Ten days later the students and their tutors found the outlines of a series of huge buildings squeezed into the ground between the amphitheatre and the River Usk. Dr Guest, a senior lecturer in Roman archaeology, said... the buildings' ground plans suggest that they were of some importance... "The biggest is enormous and must be one of the largest buildings known from Roman Britain. We can only guess what it was for, but at the moment we're working on the idea that it had something to do with a harbour on the river, although it does look uncannily like a residential villa building - if that's the case it was built on a palatial scale." ...Over the last four years, eight previously unknown barrack blocks have been found at Caerleon, along with three large granaries, a monumental metal workshop and a very large store building.
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Archaeologists Make Monumental Discovery At Caerleon
Posted on: Thursday, 12 August 2010, 08:16 CDT
Image Caption: Reconstruction of Caerleon in the Roman period, showing the newly discovered monumental suburb (© 7reasons)
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Roman villa found in Welsh ‘military zone’
Telegraph UK | Monday, July 26, 2010 | Richard Alleyne
Posted on 07/27/2010 7:15:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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from the hard drive:
Digging into the Roman Legion
Monday, June 16, 200
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Rare artefact found at Roman site
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That’s really neat. Thank you for showing it.
I found a local book on a more modern military encampment, Alameda Naval Air Station (California). Looking at the layout in the video you’ve shown, it appears strangely modern. Perhaps all well-functioning military installations derive from the Roman model.
Yet another Flavian public works project?
You wonder if in 75AD old Vespasian wasn’t thinking back to the good old days with the Second Augusta in Britain and saying; you know, maybe we should beef up the fortifications, pump a little money into the local economy...
Reconstruction of the Roman Fortress Baths, Caerleon, c. AD80
“..of a series of huge..”
he he
The conquest of Britain went pretty easily, as provinces go; the garrison was spread out and fairly small, and that’s considering that Agricola wasn’t allowed to finish up in Scotland. The Romans were caught flatfooted by Boudicca’s rebellion, but committed an extra legion to that, and cleaned it up in no time.
There’s also a Roman site (just one that is known, so far) in Ireland, which was a forward base, and buffer, and trading post, and alas not very studied so far. The Isle of Man was conquered.
Anyway, yeah, having fortified towns made sense, particularly early on.
The construction of the Antonine Wall, and thereafter Hadrian’s Wall, and the still-later reconstruction of the Antonine Wall, shows that it took a while for the Romans to basically give up on plans to finish up the British Isles.
Considered by some as the first rudimentary Walmart concept, may indeed be preceeded greatly by Stonehenge as the model for the present day Sonic.
What they both lacked were parking lots and sound barrier highway accesses.
Posted to cold, wet, gloomy, Britain. The sacrifices they made for Empire . . . . :-))
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