E&T Mag: Preserve the past - locating and protecting historic sites

As engineers and archaeologists excavate sites to pave way for ambitious engineering projects, existing technologies could help protect our ancient history.

A shackled male skeleton discovered in June this year by house builders in a garden in Rutland suggested a gruesome history – rare evidence of slavery in Roman Britain nearly 2,500 years ago. With feet bound by iron fetters, the body seemed to have been thrown in a ditch.