Already a subscriber? Sign in here
Read this article now for free!
Enter your email below to read the full article, and to receive our weekly newsletter with a round-up of The Past's top stories.
Or, subscribe for unlimited access
Eye-opening insights: Exploring an Anglo-Saxon settlement and beyond
Eye Kettleby ought to be far better known – it is a very rare example of an early medieval settlement, and the newly published excavation results shine a light on a formative period in English history for which we have precious little archaeological evidence, as Chris Catling reports.
In the mid-1990s, one of the largest known early medieval settlements in England was excavated by University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) at Eye Kettleby in Leicestershire. In his blog, Dr Gavin Speed, Project Manager at ULAS and co-author of the new book The Anglo-Saxon Settlement at Eye Kettleby, Leicestershire, describes the site as a ‘seemingly unremarkable field on the south-western outskirts of Melton Mowbray’. Yet not only did that field contain more than 50 post-built and sunken-featured structures dating from c.AD 450 to c.AD 650, it had also been a place of significant activity in the prehistoric period, with an early Bronze Age monument complex and a cremation c
-- or --
Or, subscribe for unlimited access
Or, subscribe for unlimited access
Latest from Current Archaeology
