Thorpe
Thewles Iron Age Settlement
Further
Information
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house | animals | artefacts
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Around about the time of the Roman Conquest
of Northern Britain, the settlement appears to
have been abandoned, probably in favour of a
more sheltered location close to running water,
leaving the site to be forgotten until its re-discovery
in 1976.
The excavations at Thorpe Thewles have
examined an almost complete fossilized landscape
of Iron Age date and the evidence found has
greatly enhanced our modern day understanding
of this
distant period of north-east settlement.
intro | main
house | animals | artefacts
gallery | reports | further
information |
