Firm helps protect Roman ruins
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Gallagher Group have helped preserve some Roman walls
dug up by archaeologists – by burying them again.
After being recorded by Maidstone Archaeology Group, the walls of
the Roman building near East Farleigh were due to be back-filled
anyway, but fears they could be damaged by frost meant the job
needed to be done quickly.
The Maidstone-based building, civil engineering, quarrying and
property business provided a digger and staff for a day to get the
job done.
Linda Weeks, Honorary Secretary of the Maidstone Area
Archaeological Group, thanked everyone who helped out, adding: “We
were concerned that the ragstone walls of the Roman buildings would
have been damaged by the winter frosts, but Gallagher’s timely
intervention has meant these walls have now been preserved.”
The Maidstone Area Archaeological Group has been excavating the
group of Roman buildings at East Farleigh since 2005.
They may well have been part of a Roman farmstead that supplied
those working at the quarries near Dean Street, a mile or so away,
which supplied the Kentish ragstone used to construct the walls of
Roman London.
Monday, February 13 2012
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