roadside settlement

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Roman horse-changing station uncovered in Gloucestershire

Oxford Cotswold Archaeology (OCA) archaeologists working on the A417 Missing Link improvement scheme in Gloucestershire have uncovered a Roman mutatio (literally ‘change’; the Latin term for a horse-changing station) among 12,000 years of archaeological material being brought to light under…

ABOVE Finds included coins, pots, and gaming dice, and this bell, a possibly religious object.

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Roman roadside life and death near Aylesbury

Around ten percent of the excavated individuals were missing skulls, with many clearly decapitations, evidenced by visible cut marks and placement of the head between the legs.

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Roman riches at Scotch Corner

A range of artefacts were discovered during the excavation, many of which hint at the wealth of some of the settlement’s inhabitants.