Word: huggin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discovery of well-preserved Roman ruins just across the Thames at Huggin Hill was equally serendipitous. Excavations in 1964 had revealed extensive baths on the enormous site, which measures 20,000 sq. ft. Experts are unsure whether the remains are part of the palace of Julius Agricola, the Governor of Britain in the latter half of the first century, or public baths built for the citizenry...
...Huggin Hill Baths were designated a protected archaeological site by the government years ago. But in 1988 the Department of the Environment granted a development company permission to build a seven-story office complex on the west end of the ruins. The government believed the site had already been irretrievably damaged by construction in the 1960s. But last January the archaeological team discovered a large room with central heating, vaulted semicircular recesses and a mosaic floor...
...stumbling block in preservation efforts is money. In granting a temporary reprieve to the Rose, the government had to pledge as much as $1.65 million to the building's developers to cover the costs of delays in construction. And officials admit that revoking permission to build at Huggin Hill could run the government's liability as high as $40 million...
...cheapest answer to protecting the sites is to rebury the remains and proceed with construction; future generations could re-excavate the ruins when the new buildings are knocked down. That is exactly what developers have decided to do at Huggin Hill. Stacks of tiles from the 2,000-year-old central- heating system will be covered with foam and wood before the whole site is filled in with sand; a planned two-story basement will be built at another location so that only a small section of a Roman retaining wall will need to be destroyed. Developers of the Rose...
John Womuck Jr. 59 chairman of the History Department, helped circulate the petition nationwide. Other prominent University faculty members singing the statement included Harvey G.Con Jr. Thomas professor of Divinity, Stephen Jay Could, Professor of Ceology; Nuthan I, Huggin chairman of the Afro-American studies Department and Martin L. Kilson Jr. professor of Government...