07-23-2019, 06:33 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ca...e-49019401
Iron Age roundhouses, Roman burials and Saxon pottery have been discovered in a "hugely important and hitherto unknown settlement".
The seven month-long dig in Warboys in Cambridgeshire also uncovered "a rare example" of "early Saxon occupation mingled with the latest Roman remains".
Archaeologist Stephen Macaulay said: "We almost never find actual physical evidence of this."
The settlement reverted to agricultural use after the 7th Century.
"What makes this site really significant is we have evidence of early Saxon occupation mingled with the latest Roman remains," said Mr Macaulay, deputy regional manager for Oxford Archaeology East.
Interesting stuff: it seems like it survived for a couple of hundred years after the Romans left.
I wonder why it died out in the end?
Iron Age roundhouses, Roman burials and Saxon pottery have been discovered in a "hugely important and hitherto unknown settlement".
The seven month-long dig in Warboys in Cambridgeshire also uncovered "a rare example" of "early Saxon occupation mingled with the latest Roman remains".
Archaeologist Stephen Macaulay said: "We almost never find actual physical evidence of this."
The settlement reverted to agricultural use after the 7th Century.
"What makes this site really significant is we have evidence of early Saxon occupation mingled with the latest Roman remains," said Mr Macaulay, deputy regional manager for Oxford Archaeology East.
Interesting stuff: it seems like it survived for a couple of hundred years after the Romans left.
I wonder why it died out in the end?
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