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Walker Lake Bulletin
Hawthorne, Esmeralda County, Mineral County, Nevada
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A buried city, likened to a British Pompeii, discovered on the Duke of Wellington's estate in Berkshire. Excavations reveal a house with mosaic floors and hypocaust heating. Artifacts including tools, pottery, and bones will be exhibited in London.
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It is reported that a British Pompeii or buried city has been discovered on the estate of the Duke of Wellington, in Berkshire, and an exhibition of articles discovered in it is to be held in London. The excavations have brought to view the remains of a house ornamented with mosaic floors and containing rooms heated by hypocaust. Among the articles to be exhibited are potsherds, bones, combs, bronze utensils, fragments of good glass vessels, pieces of ironwork, chiefly tools, including carpenters' planes, chisels, axes, hammers, gouges, anvils and some edged tools sharp enough, after having laid buried for ten centuries, to work with now. The city was laid out with great regularity.
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Berkshire
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discovery of buried city remains and artifacts for exhibition in london
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A buried city has been discovered on the Duke of Wellington's estate in Berkshire, featuring a house with mosaic floors and hypocaust-heated rooms. Artifacts include potsherds, bones, combs, bronze utensils, glass fragments, and iron tools such as planes, chisels, axes, hammers, gouges, anvils, some still sharp after ten centuries. The city was regularly laid out.