2,000- year- old Roman warehouse discovered.

[Gaius Paulinus Maximus]

Archaeologists hope to find out more about what could be a 2,000-year-old warehouse over the next few weeks.

 

A team of 50 are taking part in the excavation of a corner of a Roman fortress in Caerleon near Newport. The dig will open a large trench over the building, which is believed to have supplied the Roman legion. Dr Peter Guest, of Cardiff University, said: "Store buildings are a largely unknown feature of legionary fortresses." The experts from Cardiff and University College London will also keeping a blog updated of their progress in excavating the remains of a monumental courtyard building in the south-western corner of the fortress, which was known as Isca.

 

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