Post by UKarchaeology on Jan 29, 2016 20:27:28 GMT
A VISION of how an early Saxon settlement uncovered at Langford would have looked has been drawn up.
Archaeological artist Jon Cane has created a picture of how the village, discovered in April last year, would have appeared.
The settlement, along with the oldest cremation site in the UK, was discovered in advance of a new pipeline being built at Langford.
A deposit containing cremated human bone was found during excavations by Oxford Archaeology and has been dated back to 5,600 BC.
During the dig archaeologists found several buildings which date back to Saxon times.
Nick Gilmour, who led the excavation, said: “We were expecting to get prehistoric rather than Saxon. It became obvious there was quite a lot of Saxon articles – a lot more than we had thought from our initial digs.
“All that remains of the buildings are small posts which are not the sort of thing which shows up easily.
Full story: www.harwichandmanningtreestandard.co.uk/news/north_essex_news/14228761.display/