Archaeologists who excavated a Roman cemetery say it is "unique" due to the range of different types of burial and grave goods, including bracelets buried with young child. The dig team has been ...

Conveyor belts then take thousands of tons of material a day to a factory in Kirkby Thore, operated by British Gypsum. The machine that cuts the stone looks a little bit like a giant porcupine.

or crushed stone and water to form concrete, which is then sold and distributed to construction contractors. The Gypsum Wallboard segment mines and extracts natural gypsum rock, which is used in ...

A new £1 million project will investigate the mysterious Roman burial practice of pouring liquid gypsum over the clothed ...

The personal treasures of those buried have been provisionally dated to the late Roman Britain period (3rd-4th Centuries), and include a solid stone coffin containing a corpse set in gypsum.