Anglo-Saxon settlement and Roman army camp found in A14 bypass dig

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Archaeologists uncover abandoned villages, prehistoric tools and seven tonnes of pottery in Cambridgeshire.
It’s taken more than 700 years, but the medieval villagers of Houghton in Cambridgeshire have had the last laugh: the foundations of their houses and workshops have been exposed again, as roadworks carve up the landscape they were forced to abandon when their woodlands were walled off into a royal hunting forest.


http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/huge-uk-archaeology-excavations-project-unearths-prehistoric-roman-anglo-021854
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/27/anglo-saxon-settlement-and-roman-army-camp-found-in-a14-bypass-dig

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I live four miles from here. And yet I have to go to an Irish-based site to read anything about it. Go figure.

tac, in the middle of the largest civil engineering site in UK since the building of the M6.

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