A local history group recently teamed up with archaeologists and discovered a Roman road running through a village near Wallingford. 

The Brightwell-cum-Sotwell History Group teamed up with the Wallingford Historic and Archaeological Society for a dig at Brightwell School, in which they found a Roman road.

Brightwell-cum-Sotwell CofE Primary School is a small village school of just over 150 pupils.

The groups also found coins and brooches as well as a piece of tessera Mosaic. 

Jason Debney, chair of the Brightwell Village History Group said: "We’ve always known there is a roman road through the village. It's believed to be one of the first roads in England from 43AD which is the year the Romans invaded.

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"It's pretty special and quite good for a little village."

The groups found the road to stretch under two of the school classrooms, the Red Lion pub, as well as a whole row of houses in the village of Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, located in between Wallingford and Didcot.

Lindsey Bedford, head of the Britwell-Cum-Sotwell History Group, led all of the digging on the day. 

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Mr Debney added: "Thank you to Brightwell School.

"The children have really loved having the archaeologists in.

"The next big Brightwell dig is to try and find where Brightwell Castle was."

Mr Debney said the next dig will take place over the winter and next summer.