Remains of a third century Roman sewer in "good condition" and a road, with side channels and connected with it, have been discovered in the basement of a building of the Galician city of Lugo (northwest), reported the regional government.
The Galician Executive owns the land where Roman remains have been found, belonging to a water pipe system during the time of the Lower Empire, in the III-IV centuries.
The archaeological report detailing the sewer was reused as the building drainage system in the eighteenth and nineteenth , something very common in Lugo, as seen in other interventions in the city.
The remains have been found between fifty and eighty feet deep with respect to the current level of the ground floor.
The report notes that "the levels of Roman and medieval occupation located on a level very close to the current times being destroyed by the recent occupation of the land."
Following this discovery, the Department has decided to amend the planned project to rehabilitate the building and has waived part of buildable for residential use.
Thus, the lower ground floor is not occupied and is intended for the preservation of the surface and the Roman sewer, which will be open to visitors and the public.
Lugo is one of the English cities with more Roman remains, among which its walls.
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