1,700-year-old Roman watchtower ruins discovered in Switzerland


The stays of a Roman watchtower courting to the fourth century A.D. have been found by the Rhine River in northern Switzerland. 

The watchtower had a sq. base measuring 23 toes by 23 toes (7 by 7 meters) and 3-feet-thick (1 m) partitions, researchers mentioned in a translated assertion (opens in new tab). It isn’t clear how tall it might have been. Not a lot of the tower itself nonetheless stays, however archaeologists discovered bricks, stones, mortar, roof tiles and a basis ditch close to the Swiss city of Schlatt.