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In 1990 the Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust was approached by Gwent Health Authority with respect to the archaeological potential of the areas of three developments proposed in the grounds of St Cadoc's Hospital on Lodge Hill, Caerleon. These were a College of Nursing and Midwifery at ST 3344 9095, a sheltered housing development to be built by the Abbeyfield (Gwent) Extra Care Society at ST 3280 9097, and a housing estate on an area centred at ST 3283 9090. All three lay within the area of the Lodge Hill Roman cemetery, close to where a cremation and two tombstones ( RIB 358 and 392) had been found in 1909 and a sculptured head of Attis in 1972 (see FIGS 1-2). The sheltered housing scheme had already received outline permission. At the same time a watching-brief was being carried out on the widening of Pil-bach Road and the insertion of a new sewer adjacent to the Abbeyfield site. |
