{"id":1919,"date":"2014-04-16T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/portusproject\/?p=3534"},"modified":"2014-04-16T14:00:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T14:00:36","slug":"new-city-wall-discovered-at-ostia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2014\/04\/16\/new-city-wall-discovered-at-ostia\/","title":{"rendered":"New city wall discovered at Ostia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3535\" style=\"width: 466px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portusproject.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/new-city-wall-discovered-ostia\/attachment\/14_67-newly-discovered-features-at-ostia_1_satellite-imagery-courtesy-of-digital-globe-inc\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3535\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-3535\" alt=\"Newly discovered features at Ostia (Satellite imagery courtesy of Digital Globe Inc)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portusproject.org\/files\/2014\/04\/14_67-Newly-discovered-features-at-Ostia_1_Satellite-imagery-courtesy-of-Digital-Globe-Inc-466x308.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"308\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Newly discovered features at Ostia (Satellite imagery courtesy of Digital Globe Inc)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Researchers from the universities of Southampton and Cambridge have discovered a new section of the boundary wall of the ancient Roman port of Ostia, proving the city was much larger than previously estimated. The team, led by Professor Simon Keay (Southampton) and Professor Martin Millet (Cambridge), has been conducting a survey of an area of land lying between Ostia and Portus.<\/p>\n<p>The work has been undertaken as part of the Portus Project, in collaboration with the British School at Rome and Paolo Germoni and Angelo Pellegrino of the Soprintendenza Speciale per I Beni Archeologici di Roma. Previously, scholars thought that the Tiber formed the northern edge of Ostia, however this new research, using geophysical survey techniques to examine the site, has shown that Ostia\u2019s city wall also continued on the other side of the river.\u00a0 The researchers have shown this newly discovered area enclosed three huge, previously unknown warehouses \u2013 the largest of which was the size of a football pitch.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3537\" style=\"width: 466px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portusproject.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/new-city-wall-discovered-ostia\/attachment\/14_67-newly-discovered-features-at-ostia_2_satellite-imagery-courtesy-of-digital-globe-inc\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3537\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-3537\" alt=\"Newly discovered features at Ostia (Satellite imagery courtesy of Digital Globe Inc)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portusproject.org\/files\/2014\/04\/14_67-Newly-discovered-features-at-Ostia_2_Satellite-imagery-courtesy-of-Digital-Globe-Inc-466x308.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"308\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Newly discovered features at Ostia (Satellite imagery courtesy of Digital Globe Inc)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You can <a title=\"Download Ostia press release and images\" href=\"http:\/\/www.portusproject.org\/files\/2014\/04\/14_67-Ostia-press-release.zip\">download the images and press release from this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the universities of Southampton and Cambridge have discovered a new section of the boundary wall of the ancient Roman port of Ostia, proving the city was much larger than previously estimated. 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