Mystery of rebel Roman fortress in Norfolk
Jul 4th, 2009
From culture24.org: Experts hold summit to unravel mystery of rebel Roman fortress in Norfolk.
Last week (June 25 2009) a summit was held at the University of Nottingham to discuss new revelations on the mysterious Norfolk town of Caistor St Edmund.
A buried Roman province which caused sensation when RAF pictures of the site appeared on the front page of The Times in 1929, Caistor was adjudged to have been a densely-occupied urban area, abandoned by the Emperor of the struggling empire in 5AD.
New research, though, suggests such theories could be flimsily inaccurate. Using a Caesium Vapour magnetometer – a virtual grid survey device which resembles a cross between a calculator and an iPod – an expert team discovered a theatre, traces of Queen Boudicca’s rebel Iceni tribe and strong signs of activity in the area through the Iron Age and up to 900AD. [continue]