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It was during digging for materials to build the foundations for the new road and structures at one of the borrow pits that the team made the remarkable discovery of the woolly mammoth tusks and the woolly rhino skull.Īmong the amazing archaeological finds have been these woolly mammoth tusks and woolly rhino skulls, believed to be around 100,000 years old The rise and fall of a rogue emperor The 750m long River Great Ouse Viaduct, with its 6,000-tonne steel structure, is now complete. Nine new bridges have opened to traffic and construction is well underway on 25 more. Since work started, more than 8 million working hours have gone into the project. The project, which will open to traffic by December 2020, will add capacity, boost the local and national economy and cut up to 20 minutes off drivers’ journeys.

#RARE ANCIENT ROMAN COINS UPGRADE#

Main construction to upgrade 21 miles of the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon is progressing well and reached the half way mark in November 2018. The pioneering work of the project has now seen the A14 archaeology win the “Rescue Project of the Year” accolade in the 2019 Current Archaeology Awards.

Highways England is required by law to agree plans for how a scheme will deal with the effects it will have on its immediate environment, including local communities, wildlife and plants, and also any archaeological finds that may be found ahead of starting work on any new road or major upgrade. The only other coin of the short-lived emperor to be discovered on an archaeological excavation in England was found in Greenwich Park in 2001. This Celtic coin dates back to around 57 BC, and would have likely helped fund the resistance to Caesar’s legions Mammoth task uncovers big tusks

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