OLD ROMAN TOWN.
Photographs Of Buried City Taken From Air. WONDERFUL RESULTS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 6. Members of the Royal Air Force, flying at a height of 2400 ft, have taken some remarkable photographs of a Koman town buried beneath British lields. The town in question was known as Caistor. Thereabouts there lived 20,000 Romans in the heyday of Koman power in Britain. The photographs from the air show that the ruins of the town lie only just beneath the surface, and take the definite form of buildings and road?. Two of the outlines caught by the cameras resemble temples. Caistor and its environs straggle over about 1000 acres, but it is believed that by means of photographs taken from the air archaeologists will be able to go straight to the heart of the town. Consequently excavations will be beguu shortly. Queen Boadicea ruled the people, who were conquered at Caistor by the Romans. It is thought that one line of research may yield the story of her tight against the Romans.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 56, 7 March 1929, Page 7
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