London, England (CNN) - Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient Roman countryside in a park in the West of London and a Roman road, evidence of a settlement and unusual burials in the findings.
You say the find-at the site of a planned luxury hotel near the shore of Themse--are valuable and rare insight into the daily life of what was then an agricultural village.
Dating back nearly 2,000 years, would have delivered the village of the ancient Roman city of Roman London and also shelter pass given travelers.
"It helps us build a picture of the Roman countryside and shows connected as the bustling metropolis of Londinium with the rest of the Roman Britain", Jo said Lyon, a senior archaeologist London archaeological museum carried out excavations.
It helps us to build a picture of the Roman countryside and shows how the bustling metropolis Londinium connected with the rest of Roman Britain.--Jo Lyon, Museum of London archaeology
The site is located at Syon Park, owned by the Duke of Northumberland and across the River from Kew Gardens.Waldorf Astoria is a luxury hotel building on the ground is set to open early next year.
The Museum of London made the discovery in the do the excavations in August 2008 the construction of the hotel.
In only half a meter (1.5 m) found the ground was, and the findings were kept secret until the field work was finished.
Some of the finds in the hotel appear said Waldorf Astoria.
The site's revealed a section of Roman Britain main roads linking of Londinium with the Roman city of Silchester located farther west.
"This is one of the main national roads (a) very, very busy street and we don't really find fragments of the actual streets themselves very often in London," said Lyon.
The gap revealed evidence of a rural settlement and an ancient River Themse.Tausende Roman artifacts have been recovered from the site, including two slate armbands and fragments of lava Quern stone for the grinding of grain used.
Archaeologists found a fragment of an "exceptional" late bronze age (1000 - 700 BC) gold bracelet that probably predated the site, as well as hundreds of coins.
"" All coins came from the Roman road,"she said.""This road was for 400 years in use in Roman times and people have deleted only coins of these hundreds of years."
One of them is a coin made of copper alloy that has could over a V Lyon said: Vespasian, Roman Emperor from 9 to 79 a.d. was related.
There was also the skeletons of the former occupant of settlement have been his traffic.you were found in trenches, "particularly curious" was lying on your pages without any burial objects that said the Museum and unusually buried in need of more research.
Lyon said they originally thought burials were iron age because the style was so "casual". could it be that the method a local adopted was one of the Romans, who lived, she said.
The gap also showed that the British landscape, under Roman influence with the founding of the cities which streets changed significantly, the Museum said connected.
Londinium, the ancient name of London was founded on an uninhabited site 48 A.D. and its strategic position on the River Thames helped it become the most important and biggest commercial city in the province of fast.
Website of Syon Park would have been an attractive place for a settlement, because it between the street and the River Thames was sagte.Das country Museum was easy to maintain and the presence of the road would have been the community another source of income from travellers want refreshment and night.
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