Bristol Evening Post

A Roman skeleton has been found during an archaeological dig at one of Weston super Mare's most prominent buildings.

Hans Price was the architect responsible for much of the development in Weston-super-Mare during the Victorian era.

The building, which was designed by and named after Mr Price, was used as an art school and the college is planning to renovate it and bring it back into use as a performing arts centre.

The excavation revealed stone foundations of a large Roman building and areas of its interior clay floors, plus a large ditch which seems to have formed one of the boundaries of the house enclosure. The well preserved skeleton of an adult, found curled up on its side in a crouched position, was found in a shallow pit dug in the sand just outside the wall.

Pottery, animal bone, shellfish, coins and metal objects have also been unearthed, confirming the building was used as a dwelling and occupied for a considerable period of time between the second to fourth centuries AD.

The dig has been funded by Weston College and directed by Andrew Young, of Avon Archaeological Unit Ltd whose team of archaeologists have been on site for the past six weeks.

Mr Young said: "We are not yet sure whether the remains of the Roman inhabitant are male or female, but the lengthy task of analysing all the finds will soon begin.

"The digging work is now coming to an end but it is the analysis of the excavated finds which will really begin to reveal the story of the site and its Roman inhabitants."

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