Burial ground find sparks Romans or Dark Ages conflict
News report: an extensive burial ground found in trial excavations at Llandough, on land bought for a luxury housing development; archaeologists had uncovered 30 skeletons with traces of Roman timber buildings and fragments of Roman pottery in a 10-week dig by the Cotswold Archaeological Trust; the find "could prove to be one of the most important in… Free text from the archive preview: “The Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust is urging the council to order a halt to work on site. It’s believed the remains of up to 300 bodies buried between the 5th and 11th century lie beneath the now-demolished Great House Farm”
- Date
- 29 Apr 1994
- Outlet
- South Wales Echo
- Type
- newspaper
- Access
- paywalled
- Catalogue reference
- South Wales Echo, Friday 29 April 1994, Local News p.5 (British Newspaper Archive; OCR windows read: "+llandough +burials", "+llandough +skeletons", "llandough" on that date)
- Topics
- 1994-excavation, redevelopment