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Thorpe Thewles An almost complete fossilized landscape. The Thorpe Thewles Iron Age settlement is situated on the east side of the A177, approximately 1.5 kilometres to the north of the village of Thorpe Thewles, near Stockton On Tees in the north-east of England. The site was first identified from an aerial photograph taken in 1976 by Leslie Still. The rectangular cropmark lies, significantly, on the same alignment as the modern road (the A177), which is in turn, reputed to follow the course of a Roman road between Stockton on Tees and Chester le Street. It is possible that the Roman road itself followed the course of an earlier trackway which was contemporary with the Iron Age site at Thorpe Thewles. Enclosures of this type are relatively common in the north-east of England but Thorpe Thewles is much larger than most, covering an area of almost 7,000 square metres. The material remains of this period are of a completely different character from the earlier, purely Iron Age objects because this period marks the first contact between this part of the north-east and the higher civilizations around the Mediterranean, especially the Roman Empire which by AD50 had conquered southern England. These Roman objects were mainly fine wheel-thrown pottery vessels that originated in Northern Italy, central France and Northern Spain.
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