A team of 50 archaeologists had been working the site for more than a year, where they also found sections of a Roman town in the local village of Fleet Marston, alongside more than 1,200 coins, and gaming dice, bells, spoons, pins and brooches.
The residential settlement was also likely used as a stopping place for soldiers and passersby traveling through Fleet Marston, en route to the Roman town of Alchester.
The number of burials, as well as the settlement itself, implied that a large number of people arrived at the town between the mid and late Roman period — potentially as a result of inflated agricultural production.
The cemetery mostly housed entombed burials because inhumation was common at the time, but there were also some cremation burials.
“The excavation is significant in both enabling a clear characterisation of this Roman town but also a study of many of its inhabitants,” said Richard Brown, a senior project manager at COPA JV, a consortium of archaeologists working on behalf of the project.
“Along with several new Roman settlement sites discovered during the HS2 works it enhances and populates the map of Roman Buckinghamshire,” Brown added.
Source : Nbcnewyork