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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Signed copy. Pages in excellent condition. Map and plans present. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The existence and approximate line of the east-west Roman road fairly certain and it would have continued to attract use in later periods. Excavations in the grounds of the bishop’s palace in 1955-6 produced Ipswich-type ware of Middle Saxon date in addition to late Saxon Thetford ware pottery a Saxon bronze buckle and smelting slags (Norfolk SMR Nos 44-45; Medieval Archaeol 1 (1957) 148). On the basis of this evidence Carter postulated an embryonic urban settlement focused on the crossing point of the two conjectured Roman roads (Holme Street crossing a proposed north-south road). Others have been more tentative in assign ing this area urban status before the tenth or eleventh centuries and there is general (MP)