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IRON AGE TREASURES FOUND

- Washington Post

A VAST ancient Roman trading settlement has been unearthed in England, during routine digging work for a new highspeed train track. The rare finds include more than 300 coins, jewellery and a giant Roman road, with the area being described as “a significan­t archaeolog­ical site” by the government company developing a high-speed railway project. Glass vessels, pottery and evidence of make-up were uncovered. Eighty archaeolog­ists have been excavating the Iron Age village. |

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