Excavations at a large Romano-British Settlement at
Hacheston, Suffolk, 1973–4
by Thomas Blagg, Judith
Plouviez and Andrew Tester
East Anglian Archaeology Volume 106
Suffolk
County Council 2004
220pp, 16pls, 129figs
The core of this `small town' was established before the conquest
in AD43, and seems to consist of circular buildings, enclosed by
ditches and a palisade. During the later 1st century a gravel road
was laid out and insubstantial rectangular buildings were erected
alongside it. This basic layout continued throughout the Roman
period, with a droveway and partial field enclosures to the south.
Pottery was manufactured at Hacheston between the later 1st and mid
3rd centuries, and the excavations also produced iron smithing
debris and related structures.
The settlement continued as a market and manufacturing centre until
the 4th century, when there was a marked drop in activity, and the
place had become extremely impoverished by AD370. Early Anglo-Saxon
structures were found just outside the Roman settlement.
The site was one of the first on which metal detecting was carried
out, and the large assemblage of metal objects adds significantly
to understanding both the chronology and the status of the
settlement as a market and a manufacturing centre.
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