IN REPLY to John Alonzi’s have you heard letter.
The Argus reported on the ruins found at the proposed gypsy site at Hartridge farm road on February 4, 2017, which stated that the ruins date back from the middle of the iron age and Roman periods and include roundhouses, uniform field divisions, stone-lined walls and drains, revealing evidence of settlement activity indicating a domestic site with the potential for some industrial activity.
Most of the dating evidence at the time came from the pottery recovered and the finds from the excavation are being stored at a Newport City Council facility away from the Ellen Ridge site.
At the time of the article a spokeswoman for Newport city council said the findings will not delay the beginning of work to provide a residential site to accommodate local gypsy and traveller families.
It would be interesting to see the report from Archaeology Wales who excavated this iron age site.
Has anybody heard anything else?
Virginia Brown
Newman Close
Newport
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