and Gold Richbrough (Kent).
A mystery that is nearly 2,000 years old is being probed here by Some of the most expert archwologists in the county Delving down to the mighty foundations of the ancient Rich-borough Castle, or fort of Rutupi which the Romans built soon after they first seriously invaded Kent, they are unearthing all kinds of remarkable Roman and Saxon re-Much history hitherto unknown has already been pieced together.
A few days ago a delicately fash-foned dentist's probe was found This instrument is almost exactly Vike that used by the modern dental surgeon, Mr. F. ON. Pryeo, FSA, of the British Museum, who is" helping at the excavations, smiled when he told of this find. "The Romans were quite up-to-date' in dentist try," he said, "for there is evidence that they even used gold filling.'
Some thousands of coins have been discovered of periods ranging from A.D. 43, when the Emperor Claudius started to colonies Britain, to the time of the Roman evacuation of the country about 450 years later. Recently 36. cop-he Per and silver coins were dug up.
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