Gallery: Peep These Ancient Treasures Dug Up With London's New Train Tunnels
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Archeologists believe these are bones of the Bison priscus, which disappeared from Britain around the same time as the mammoth. They could be up to 500,000 years old. There’s a chance these bones carry markings of butchery by humans. More likely, scientists say, they were gnawed on by wolves or bears, trampled and broken, then buried by soil.
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A 14th century burial ground, found under central London’s Charterhouse Square. The site is only the second Black Death mass grave discovered in the city.
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Archaeologists discovered 25 skeletons at this Charterhouse Square burial site. Scientists are currently analyzing the finds in the hopes of discovering more about the people buried here and exactly what killed them.
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An archaeologist working on the Tottenham Court Road site cleans the remains of a brick building, which may be an 18th century cellar. This site is nearly 10 feet below today’s street level.
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This piece of an orange marmalade jam jar was discovered during construction on Tottenham Court. The shard dates back to a 19th century bottling plant that sprawled across many blocks of western London.
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Well-preserved, decorated ginger jars, also from the 19th century bottling plant in Tottenham Court.
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So many 19th-century pots at Tottenham Court Road!
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These are remains of an engine shed built by legendary engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel and used as part of the Great Western Railway. The steam train’s operations began in 1838, and this engine shed, near Paddington in west London, was demolished in 1906.
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