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Venta Icenorum saved for the nation

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« on: July 13, 2011, 01:39:02 am »



The southern town defences at Venta Icenorum. Image: The Armatura Press, Flickr

Peter Wade-Martins, director of Norfolk Archaeological Trust, announced: “I am absolutely delighted the trust has managed to acquire this vitally important part of the Roman town which is a significant addition to the 120 acres already under our conservation management.”

Little remains above the ground, but below the topsoil are extensive remains of the Roman town where the Iceni lived in a planned grid pattern settlement.

Only the sites of Wroxeter in Shropshire and Silchester in Hampshire match the preservation found at Venta Icenorum, however, this site is even more interesting, as it seems to have evolved into a Saxon market town, before being abandoned.

A large part of the site, 22 hectares, which until earlier this year didn’t even have the protection of scheduled ancient monument listing, has been ploughed regularly, and every time the land was ploughed, the footprints and holes of unauthorised metal detector users were to be seen in the fields.

Venta Icenorum straddled both sides of the River Tas and was the Roman capital of what is now Norfolk and Suffolk. The Norfolk Archaeological Trust already owned part of the town to the east of the river, but the newly purchased land to the west will now be reconnected to the town and operate as an entire archaeological site freely accessible to the public.
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