December
04
/ 2020
It’s always surprising when you read that a sacred site was “abandoned” for commercial opportunity. But it happens! UK researchers have determined that a large sacred site and Roman villa complex in England were despiritualized and, not much later, repurposed to function as a tile and brick workshop. The 1,600-year-old Roman industrial site, located at Priors Hall Park in Corby, is being excavated prior to the construction of 5,000 new homes. Located at the heart of an ancient limestone and iron ore mining region, the area around Corby is home to forty “known” Roman villas, which were first identified in 2011 and 2016. In the of spring 2020, a team of archaeologists from Oxford Archaeology East excavated the site and
