Thursday, November 10, 2011

Roman town of Venta Icenorum site bought for public ownership

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move unusual with English Heritage, National Heritage Memorial Fund and other money to help preserve the archaeological site buried in Norfolk

rolling fields of Norfolk, where low marks can be seen monitoring the streets and houses of a Roman city buried were purchased by English Heritage, National Heritage Memorial Fund and money from local authorities in an unusual move to preserve an archaeological site in public ownership forever.

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Icenorum name in the River Tas on the outskirts of the village of Caistor St Edmund modern, retains the memory of one of the few local tribes that the Romans had reason to fear: that the Iceni taken in absentia for his queen famous Boudicca, burnt the cities of the invader in Colchester and London in AD61.

Archaeologists believe the remains of the city

are in danger of unauthorized metal detection and intensive agriculture.

Only a few banks and fragments of stone walls remain on the surface, but underground there are many vestiges of the Roman town, where rebellious Iceni finally managed to live in regular houses and streets .

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also reveal the end of the road right -. Roman Colchester Thus, they could go up to crush any uprising plus signs

  • The site is particularly valuable for archaeologists because the majority of Roman colonies developed in modern cities and towns, while the rest was destroyed by foundations later. Green spaces such as the Shropshire Wroxeter and Silchester in Hampshire, are rare, and Icenorum sale is particularly interesting because there is no evidence that it became a Saxon market town, before being abandoned to sheep.
Much of the site, 22 hectares (55 acres), which until earlier this year not even the protection of ancient monuments list, have been regularly tilled as fields - and Once every land has been plowed, the traces of metal detectors is not allowed in the fields.

The land was purchased with grants of £ 374 000 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund - a fund of last resort, which is administered by the Heritage Lottery Fund, but can move faster when the matter is considered urgent - with English Heritage £ 40,000 and £ 20,000 from South Norfolk Council, and the money raised by the Foundation Archaeological Norfolk, a rare gesture for an archaeological site on public property, and the first time NLSF who purchased a site exclusively for its archaeological value.

The land will be added to 49 hectares (120 acres) acquired by the trust in the 1990s who left for grazing of sheep and interpreted by the signs that explain the buried city hikers.
"believed that the threat to archaeological buried in the plow and metal detection is very real," said Peter Wade-Martins, director of the trust. "Our priority is to return the entire site to the grass and enjoy the gentle countryside of public opinion. "


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