But the dig in 2009 revealed evidence of a Roman town, with up to 300 houses, shops and a blacksmith.
Karl Hulker, head of archaeology at the Heritage Collective, said he understood there were remains of the original Roman town beneath the prison.
Head to the modern Archaeological Park Musuem, built over a part of the town's Roman-era decumanus (the main east-west road in a Roman town).
The city also boasts its Westgate, through which Henry V marched his troops to Agincourt. and the remains of the Roman town of Clausentum located in the Bitterne area.
The last time the cultural event was held in the Roman market town was back in 1973.
Regensburg once was a Roman garrison town and is a celebrated tourist site.
The first baths opened in the 1830s, taking advantage of the natural brine springs that have been used in the town since Roman times.
The cockerel was found during excavation work at the former Bridges Garage site on Tetbury Road in Cirencester - once the second largest town in Roman Britain.
Robert Henry Jolleys, 52, of Woodlands Park, Clitheroe, claimed the money to send his three children to the town's Roman Catholic Stonyhurst College.
In the middle of a conversation about the town's Roman influences and medieval architecture, we rounded a curve and came upon both a Roman theater and, behind it, the walled city, whose narrow streets and stone buildings gave us a glimpse of the Middle Ages.
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The discoveries also cleared up a long-standing mystery about a Roman lodging house found on the slopes above the present-day town of Thun, where there was a Roman temple and settlement.
Um er-Rasas (Kastrom Mefa'a) started as a Roman military camp and grew into a town in the Byzantine era and continues into the Early Islamic period.
The idea that there was a Roman settlement in St Peter Port was furthered when the Town Market building was redeveloped in 2000 and a further series of settlements were found.
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In the 18th century, under George III, it developed into an elegant town with neoclassical Palladian buildings, which blend harmoniously with the Roman baths.
Prayers will be said on Sunday morning at a service dedicated to Drummer Rigby at St Peter the Apostle Roman Catholic Church, in Woolwich, as well as during a service at the town's St Mary Magdalene Parish Church.
Then there is the name of the town, Liqian, which may have been used at the time to refer to the Roman empire.
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