A press release published in July detailed the discovery of a Roman villa in the British countryside containing a “mysterious” feature.
The extensive second-century A.D. villa is roughly 70 meters (230 feet) long, and is the second such property uncovered in the East Midlands region in the last three years, according to the press release from the University of Leicester. The home was uncovered by student archaeologists and their teachers at the school, who told Newsweek of a “rather mysterious” stone-lined feature at the two-story property.
“When first uncovered, we suspected that it was a Roman well, but excavation showed that it was a relatively shallow stone and brick-lined rectangular feature. The students excavated it and no finds were recovered from it, so its function is a bit of a mystery,” said the university’s Roman archaeology lecturer Philippa Walton.
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