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‘Failure of Roman engineering on industrial scale’: discovery of water wells in England proves trial and error
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‘Astonishingly preserved’ remains in Cambridgeshire give clues to substantial Romano-British industrial settlement
The Romans were remarkable engineers, thousands of years ahead of us on everything from underfloor heating to plumbing. But even they had their off-days and made mistakes, a new discovery reveals.
Two wells built in the first century AD have been found in a field in Cambridgeshire by archaeologists from Mola (Museum of London Archaeology), and they reveal the trials and errors involved in a complex design and construction.
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