OLD ROMAN TOWN IN BRITAIN

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 139, 8 March 1929, Page 12

OLD ROMAN TOWN IN BRITAIN

RUINS PHOTOGRAPHED - FROM THE AIR •PEOPLE RULED BY BOADICEA British Official Wireless -■ Rugby, March 5. At a height of 2400 feet men of the Royal Air Force have taken remarkable photographs of a Roman town burled underneath the' fields. This ROman town Is known as Caistor, and thereabouts lived 20,000 Romans in the hoydfty of Roman power in Britain. Photographs from on high show that the ruins lie only just beneath the surface, and take the definite form of buildings, and roads. Two of the out-lines-caught by the camera resemble temples. Caistor and its environs straggle over about 1000 acres, _but it is believed that by air photographs archaeologists will be able to go straight to the heart of the town. Consequently excavations will begin shortly. Queen Boadicea ruled the people who were conquered at Caistor by the Romans, and it is thought that one line of research may yield the story if her fight against the Romans. [Caistor is situated in Northern Lincolnshire at a gap in the wolds. Boadicea, Queen of the Iceni, a tribe. , in Eastern Britain, rebelled against the Romans in 62 A.D., in consequence of ill-treatment, and died in the., same year.] ......