An artwork that will celebrate the discovery of a Roman barn could be installed at a Warwick school.

The 30ft barn was unearthed in February 2018 during the building of King's High School.

To commemorate the discovery the school has commissioned artist Liz Middleton to turn a student's poem into a permanent four metre high display on the wall of the school's main reception building.

The barn was found during a preventative excavation by archaeologists before the main building work began.

The building is believed to have been built in the second century, and remained in use for another 200 years.

"The proposal is to commemorate the archaeological discovery of a 30ft long Roman Barn and objects during the build of the King's High School building recently completed in 2018 as part of project one campus," a planning application submitted to Warwick District Council said.

"The artist is to use a poem written by one of the students during a poetry workshop about the Roman finds to make a large-scale metal artwork on the façade next to the student entrance to the school."

The Myton Road school also plans to have the display, which will be made of galvanised metal, illuminated.

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The poem reads: "When they dissect each crevice and cranny and nook and record all their findings in history books. Will they know that beneath what beneath them they found was a whole other culture sequestered in ground?

"The readers of the future may know well and good that this was such ground as the Romans once stood."