Olympic site excavations were in the news today, as some interesting objects have been dug up. Archaologists confirmed that a flint axe over 4000 years old had been found as well as four prehistoric skeletons buried in graves around an area of Iron Age settlement, a Roman coin, Roman river walls, medieval and Neolithic pottery, Second World War gun emplacements and a complete 19th century boat used for hunting wild fowl on the lower River Lea.
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1 Digging up the past « FiLo – The Fieldwork in London Network // Jul 26, 2009 at 9:06 pm
[...] have been a wealth of interesting finds of things the ancient residents of east London left behind at the Olympic site. The Olympic site was [...]
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