A Claudian Site at Needham, Norfolk
- 8 January 1941
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Antiquaries Journal
- Vol. 21 (1) , 40-55
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003581500011215
Abstract
Needham lies on the Norfolk side of the Waveney valley, not far west of Harleston. East of the village is the large gravel pit owned by Mr. H. Dean which has revealed the site (fig. 1) here to be described. This pit has already produced a Bronze Age food vessel, and is known as the site of a microlithic industry and of a first- and second-century Romano-British village. Commercial working has laid bare from time to time dark pits and ditches on the surface of the gravel, which have yielded the normal debris of the Romano-British peasant settlement. One of these ditches, however, lying to the south of the area of later occupation, has yielded remains of the Claudian period which throw considerable light upon the manner and date of the earliest attempt to romanize East Anglia.Keywords
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