Chichester post issue 57

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Issue: 57

Chichester Post ISSN 2397-8732

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Friday, June 2, 2017

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City celebrates its heritage - page 3

Incredible Roman find in city BY RUTH SCAMMELL ruth.scammell@sussexpost.co.uk A PRIVATE Roman bath house, belonging to the richest Romans in Chichester, has been unearthed in one of the city’s parks. It has been described as “a once in a life time opportunity for local archaeological volunteers to uncover a find like this". THe remains of three Roman buildings

were originally identified under Chichester’s Priory Park, using groundpenetrating radar equipment and a small dig was originally carried out to confirm this. James Kenny, Chichester District Council’s archaeologist, has been working solidly for over a week with the help of Chichester and District Archaeology Society to uncover the secrets beneath Priory Park.

He said: "For Chichester this is a really exciting find. It's very well preserved. "Most of the Roman archaeology in Chichester doesn't survive anywhere near as complete as this. It's a reasonably rare thing. "Chichester probably had several posh houses in the late Roman period but I bet not many survived anywhere near as good a condition as this. "THe most important thing is the

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opportunity for people to be involved for the general public to see it happening is tremendous. "It's quite impressive. What's nice is that I was looking at hoards of people in the park who were coming up and watching. So the general public were seeing the archaeology appear as it happened." Continued on page seven

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