The road would have carried thousands of soldiers marching between what is now Essex and Norfolk during the Roman era, and in 2004, the remains of a Roman settlement were discovered in the Suffolk village of Stoke Ash. Just a stone’s throw away from the A140 road, archaeologists John Fairclough and Mike Hardy found pottery, brooches, coins and other items that date back to the 1st century.
Roman forts
Here in Suffolk, archaeologists have also uncovered evidence of 1st century Roman forts at both Coddenham and Pakenham.
“Both are protected, on private land and only visible from the air as crop marks,” explains Faye.
The road would have carried thousands of soldiers marching between what is now Essex and Norfolk during the Roman era, and in 2004, the remains of a Roman settlement were discovered in the Suffolk village of Stoke Ash. Just a stone’s throw away from the A140 road, archaeologists John Fairclough and Mike Hardy found pottery, brooches, coins and other items that date back to the 1st century.
Roman forts
Here in Suffolk, archaeologists have also uncovered evidence of 1st century Roman forts at both Coddenham and Pakenham.
“Both are protected, on private land and only visible from the air as crop marks,” explains Faye.
Macamathehou in Lincolnshire and the evidence for people named Muhammad in medieval England
The aim of the following draft is to offer some thoughts on a local name from thirteenth-century Lincolnshire,
Macamathehou, that involves a version of the Arabic name Muhammad (Middle English
Makomet/Macamethe, Old French
Mahomet). Whilst it has been plausibly seen as an instance of a variant of the name of Muhammed being used to mean heathen , pagan idol or similar (based on the false but common medieval Christian belief that the prophet Muhammad was worshipped as a god), here in reference to a barrow that was considered to be a pre-Christian site, it is worth noting that there are a small number of people with names and surnames derived from Arabic