Unexpected Iron Age Settlement and Roman Villa Found in Oxfordshire
“We think we might be looking at a site that was continuously occupied from the middle Iron Age, all the way through the Roman period,” marveled DigVentures fieldwork supervisor Chris Caswell. “We won’t know for sure until we’ve had a closer look at all of the available dating evidence, but we’re very excited to find out the answer.” The DigVenture team was dispatched to Oxfordshire County in central England at the request of the environmental nonprofit Earth Trust, which has stewardship over Wittenham Clumps and its associated Iron Age hill fort site . Earth Trust is pla...