HISTORIC FIND
TWO ROMAN CORN FURNACES.
LONDON, June 29
Discoveries of 'remains dating thejoccupation of Britain by the'Romanflare being made so often, as to excite little more than passing interest; but one recently made.-at Southwick, near Brighton, during excavations in a near-by hill, of a village of the Roman period is important because of the rarity of one feature uncovered.
. It consists of two furnaces for drying corn, a practice which is said to have been very common owing to the wet climate and uncertain summers. The discovery also supplies proof that the English climate is no modern development, for, while the Romans did not have to consider methods of artificially drying cricket pitches, they could- not rely on the sun ripening the corn sufficiently. The furnaces they used for the purpose are rare, and the one found near Southwick is the. first to be discovered in Sussex.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 July 1932, Page 5
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