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Caistor, and a Comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

R. E. M. Wheeler
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So Caistor-by-Norwich is to be excavated. It has long been known that in the 30-acre field adjoining the little church of St. Edmund a ghost of the Roman town shows dimly from time to time as a net-work of lines in the sun-dried corn. Last year on the 20th of July, during the midsummer heat-wave, a Royal Air Force aeroplane, flying at a height of 2400 feet over the ripening barley, took a series of photographs which were first published (as a single plate) in the Times of 4th March 1929. These photographs show, within the circuit of the existing Roman town-walls, the main street-plan of Venta Icenorum. With them appeared an appeal for funds for the purpose of excavation.

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Research Article
Information
Antiquity , Volume 3 , Issue 10 , June 1929 , pp. 182 - 187
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1929

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