WORKERS laying new water pipes around Bridlington have tapped into a previously undiscovered part of the area's history.
Contractors have found the remains a 2,000-year-old village near Thornholme, including children's and animals' bones, British and foreign pottery, coins and the outline of a roundhouse.
Archaeologists have des-cribed the find as significant and teams are now sifting through a field off the A614 looking for more artefacts.
Site manager Ben West-wood, from Northern Archae-ological Associates, said: 'The earliest pottery we have so far had dated for the site indicates that it is from the second century. The latest is a coin from the late third or maybe fourth century.
Site manager Ben Westwood. (PA0630-7f)"
"The items are incredibly well preserved, especially the young bones, and we think the site was occupied for 200 or 300 years from what we have uncovered here so far."It's significant because it adds to the picture of what we know about Roman settlements and the people who were living in this area of the Yorkshire Wolds.
Thornholme settlement dig. (PA0630-7h)
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