Developers plan student flats on Roman site in Newcastle
Housing developers want to build student flats on land behind Newcastle Central Station that saw some of the city’s most important Roman finds.
Plans have been submitted for a seven-storey, 209-bed complex on the vacant former Bemco site at Clavering Place.
And it was there in 2008 that archaeologists from Durham University discovered what they believed to be the main road to the Roman fort of Pons Aelius, a cemetery, and remains of the civilian settlement near the garrison …