TIL about the 'lost' Roman city under a field in England

I was reading a report from the University of Cambridge about their geophysical survey in Kent, and they found a whole Roman settlement with streets and shops under a farmer's field. The detail that got me was they could see the exact layout of a bakery and a metal workshop from the scans. Has anyone else seen a recent find where the tech revealed something that specific?

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kelly316d ago

Oh wow, that's so cool! I saw something like that about a Roman villa under a field in Wales. The scans showed the floor heating system so clearly, you could make out the individual pipes (hypocaust, I think they call it). It's wild what they can see without even digging a hole.

oscarwilliams6d ago

Man, that hypocaust stuff is wild. It makes me feel like a lazy modern guy, you know? I'm over here complaining if my apartment's heat is uneven, and two thousand years ago they had fancy tile floors warmed by little tunnels. I can't even fix a leaky faucet.