A community dig unearths Iron Age activity in 'one of the most intriguing areas of the Roman town'.
The community archaeology groupWhen it was first founded in about AD70s, the town was surrounded not by walls but by a huge circuit of ditches, with a perimeter of 2.4km .Prof Will Bowden said while it is early days, their latest finds are giving them "a real sense of what's going on in this field"The defensive ditches surrounded an area much greater than the later walls
Project director Prof Bowden, a Roman archaeology specialist from Nottingham University, said it is a key location. "We've always known this is an important area of the Roman town and excavations in the 1930s on this land demonstrated this had some of the earliest activity associated with the town in the very late Iron Age or early Roman period," he said.
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