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The ‘Priest’s House’: excavating an enigmatic Roman structure at Caistor St Edmund
Ongoing excavations by the Caistor Roman Project are shedding light on an enigmatic structure that once stood close to a temple built outside the walled town of Venta Icenorum, near Norwich. CA Editor Carly Hilts visited the site and spoke to Will Bowden about the latest finds.
Outside the walls of Venta Icenorum, a Roman town and regional capital near Norwich (see CA 270), the line of an early 2nd-century road can be traced about a kilometre north-east to what today is an open paddock on the outskirts of Caistor St Edmund. There, on exceptionally dry days, parchmarks preserve the outlines of two Roman buildings within a large precinct. In the 1950s, one of these was revealed to be a temple, and in more recent years this structure has formed the focus of the Caistor Roman Project (a volunteer-led initiative with professional assistance from Professor Will Bowden of the University of Nottingham and Giles Emery of Norvic Archaeology, and including students from the U
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