TAG: Roman Britain
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Digs & Discoveries July/August 2016
A Villa under the Garden
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Digs & Discoveries January 1, 2011
Heads Won, Tales Lost
Last May, a 24-year-old man in northern England with a handheld metal detector found the remains of a stunning bronze-and-tin Roman helmet dating to the first or second century A.D. Within days, he had brought 40-some pieces of the artifact—called the "Crosby Garrett helmet" after the village near where it was found—to Christie's auction house in London.
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