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They've been hidden on a patch of Tyneside land for nearly 2,000 years before finally being discovered. Now amazing relics of Roman times could now be lost for ever after council chiefs revealed plans to build on top of them. North Tyneside Council has sparked fury by recommending permission be granted for plans to build on top of the remains, which its own planning documents say are of national and international importance.

 

full article at Evening Chronicle

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For the life of me, I can't figure out how so much soil accumulates over these sites.

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Gaius,

 

I am right there with you. Especially when there is only like a 400-500 year gap between settlement layers. It baffles the ever living Hades out of me... :P

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Disgraceful the whole ordeal is.

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