In our ongoing celebration of PCA’s rich 30-year legacy, we’re delighted to share the latest addition to our series of remarkable sites! When our open-area excavations began in the Crouch Valley, a Roman farmstead was anticipated. However, investigations revealed a farmstead which had been occupied from the Middle Iron Age to the late Roman period (c. 300/200 BC to at least AD 400), together with a Late Iron Age mortuary enclosure with eleven graves, cremations, three animal burials, and other intriguing ‘ritual’ deposits. The site yielded exceptional artefacts, including an extremely rare Iron Age chain, one of the finest examples of an Egyptian Onyx perfume container found in Roman Britain, and a finely crafted Roman glass cup.
Read more about this fascinating site here
