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Article: The oldest housing estate in the city; AN EXCITING DISCOVERY WAS UNEARTHED WHEN WORK COMMENCED ON A NEW ALL-WEATHER PITCH FOR WARWICK UNIVERSITY - AN IRON AGE SETTLEMENT.(News)
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- Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
- Article date:
- August 2, 2002
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Byline: Richard Padgett
ARCHAEOLOGISTS have discovered an Iron-Age village believed to be the earliest known settlement within Coventry. Details of excavations which have been carried out at a secret location were announced today. RICHARD PADGETT reports.
ARCHAEOLOGIST Dr Stephen Hill had suspected for many years that a field on the University of Warwick site held hidden treasures.
But it wasn't until work began to build an all-weather sports pitch on the land that he finally found out what lay beneath the surface.
As the earth-movers ...