BOADICEA’S TOWN.
LOCATED FROM THE AIR. COVERS ABOUT 1000 ACRES. EXCAVATIONS CONTEMPLATED. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 5. Members of the Royal Air Force, flying at a height of 2400ft.,-have taken sonic remarkable photographs of a Roman town buried beneath British fields. The town in question was known as Caistor. Thereabouts there lived 20,000 Romans in the heyday of Roman power in Britain. The photographs from the air show that the ruins of the town lie only just beneath the surface, and take the dollnic form of buildings and roads. 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 begun shortly.
Queen Boadicca 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 fight against the Romans.
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Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17654, 7 March 1929, Page 7
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