13th November 2014, 11:12 AM
Be interesting to see what the Roman Rural Settlement project throws out next year - certainly in my main area of interest around here all the Roman stuff happens alongside the main Roman road and the folks back in the boonies don't really bother with it, to the extent that after the shutters are pulled down on Britannia it's almost like a forgotten wound that heals over - there's no real difference archaeologically, once away from the road, between IA/RB/Anglian, up till the foundation of the 'modern' villages in the later Saxon period (and they all pretty much without exception avoid/ignore the road).