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THREE years of patient digging have finally come to fruition for James Balme who, helped by his trursty metal detector, may have uncovered one of the largest Roman sites in the region.
Keen archaeologist James, who lives in Rixton, has; been scouring the site in Warburton on the outskirts of Lymm since August 1998 and has uncovered more than 400 artefacts, from samples of pottery, hairpins and jewellery to a set of axes dating back k to 2000 BC,
Now experts at Manchester University who have been keeping, a close watch on 37-year-old James' finds, and have officially recorded details of the artefacts to study the site over five years.Archaeological teams from the university are set to work with James in the excavation of the site which will feature a film produced by an independent television company which will document James' work.
James believes the site was possibly an Iron Age village then a Roman farm, and he is convinced that a burial mound could lie under the site.And after studying the artefacts uncovered by James, Experts at Manchester university believe a member of the Roman landed gentry may have lived there
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