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BELOW Overlooking the remains of Scar House Village in North Yorkshire. In the early 20th century, this was a thriving navvy camp.

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If you go down to the woods… discovering Yorkshire’s hidden heritage

A wide-ranging archaeological survey across more than 1,000 hectares of Yorkshire woodland has revealed the secrets of hundreds of sites, many never recorded before. John Buglass takes us on a tour of some of the highlights.

Below Project Manager Laurie Coleman of Cotswold Archaeology examines a possible beam slot in an internal wall dividing two of the shops. Bottom This section through the Corn Hall site shows the masonry footings for the Roman street arcade (right), and a considerable depth of limestone rubble pavement (left). The black feature to the left is a late medieval robber trench, dug to remove much of the stone forming the front wall of the shops. Some of the walling from the shops may be reflected in the above ground topography as late as the 16th century, and some of the houses and shops around today’s market place may have been built from recycled Roman masonry.

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Roman shopping centre found in Cirencester

The 1st and 2nd century structures were found in the basement of Cirencester Corn Hall