Investigate in detail about an ancient Roman town in England

By Jeanna Bryner

Thanks to modern technology, scientists have discovered more details about an ancient Roman town discovered in England. New details include the street network, public buildings such as temples and baths, the city's waterways and perhaps a big theater.

Old town of Venta Icenorum in Caistor St. Edmund, Norfolk, England was first discovered in 1928 when a Royal Air Force aircraft recorded images of the area. Because the summer weather of that year was especially dry, the details of the ancient city stood out as dry stains in barley fields.

In April 1929, those photos took the first page of the London Times and immediately attracted public interest.

Today, thanks to a modern magnetometer, scientists have discovered more details of the city under the field through monitoring the region's magnetic change. The results confirmed the city map in aerial photographs and a series of public works found from an earlier excavation.

Will Bowden, head of the archeology team at the University of Nottingham - England, said: 'The results from the study have exceeded our expectations. It can be said that this research has expanded our understanding of the Casitor, a feeling that is similar when the plane captured the first photos 80 years ago. '

City map (Photo: Foxnews)

City map

The results revealed a clear trace of a semicircle project located near the temples of the city, which is typical of theaters in the Roman era.

David Gurney, an archaeologist and director of Norfolk Department of Archeology and Museum, said: 'This is a great discovery. The evolution of the universal Roman tradition Caistor will also bring us many secrets in the years to come as research and excavation continue. '

The Casitor is located in the territory of the Iceni people, a nation led by Queen Boudica against Roman invaders in the 1st century AD.

The Casitor is in a well-preserved condition thanks to the occupation of medieval Norwich people and they have turned them into fields rather than destroying them to rebuild. In contrast, some Roman towns with a similar history have been replaced and buried in modern towns of England and Europe.

A bustling town?

This new discovery has countered some initial assumptions that this town is a crowded and crowded urban area. The results show that the construction works are concentrated around the main roads of the city while the other areas are deserted and perhaps used for cultivation.

The results also show that the Casitor region may be a key settlement from the Iron Age to the 9th century AD. Earlier, it was thought that life in the Casitor ended in the 5th century AD when the Saxon occupied and defeated Rome to take power.

However, the research results show that there is a large row of fences that are dug into the roads in the town, a sign of people settling here. This finding, along with finding Saxon coins, metal artworks and two Saxon cemeteries in the early days was a sign of the town's continued development after the Roman era.

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