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Iceni updates: Expanding our understanding of Venta Icenorum
The Caistor Roman Project has returned for another summer excavation outside the walls of Venta Icenorum – once the most important town in Roman East Anglia. Carly Hilts visited the site and spoke to Will Bowden and the Caistor team to hear the latest thinking about the settlement and its inhabitants.
In the decade following Rome’s suppression of the Iceni uprising famously led by Boudica c.AD 60/61, a new town developed within their traditional heartlands in what today is rural Norfolk. Venta Icenorum, as the settlement was known, became Roman East Anglia’s regional capital – relatively small in size, but fully furnished with all the facilities that might be expected, including a gridded street plan, a forum, baths, a pair of temples in the town centre and another extramural example to the north-east, and an amphitheatre to the south. By the late 3rd century, the town had been augmented with defensive walls, and the settlement continued to thrive in the 4th century, witnessing the
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