The new Defence College of Logistics, Policing and Administration at Worthy Down will provide training facilities and living accommodation for up to 2,000 students and staff from all the armed services. Skanska will deliver the facilities in phases ...
The building of a new defence college in Worthy Down has encountered an unusual obstacle. Roman bones have been discovered at the site. It started with the discovery of a single human skull when contractors first got to work on the site for the brand ...
Workers preparing the ground for a new £250 million Army barracks have discovered at least 11 Roman skeletons and a rare coin dating back nearly 2,000 years. Artefacts found with the bones included a coin of the emperor Valens, who reigned between ...
The burials were discovered during preparatory works by Skanska, the contractor which is redeveloping the Worthy Down site on behalf of the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO). Investigations revealed a cluster of at least 11 burials and ...
A decapitated body with its head placed between its legs and two skeletons buried in rare fully extended positions have been discovered during an excavation at a proposed £250 million armed forces training facility in Hampshire, where archaeologists ...
Roman remains have been uncovered by workmen preparing a site for a new defence college near Winchester. The cluster of 11 skeletons dating from the 3rd and 4th Centuries were discovered at Worthy Down during work on a new armed forces building.