Time Team Excavation Site Utrecht (Utrecht)

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If you were a Roman soldier guarding the northern frontier of the empire, which would be worse, facing the waring picts on Hadrian's Wall or stuck in a tower like this in the marshes of the Netherlands watching over the River Rhine, a main supply route into Britain.

Here in Utrecht, archaeologists are making some amazing discoveries which detail what life really would've been like here on the frontier, and how hard the Roman army had to work in order to keep the supply route to Britain open.

Time Team have been invited to the Netherlands to help uncover that story. And you'll understand why were just a tad excited, when I tell you that one of the things that we're gonna be digging over the next three days is a perfectly preserved Roman boat