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East Anglia Culture History and Archaeology

Culture history, archaeological sites, and other information related to the past of East Anglia, England, including the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, and Essex.
Beeches Pit (United Kingdom)
Beeches Pit is the name of a Lower Paleolithic archaeological site located in Suffolk, England. The site has been dated to about 400,000 years old, and was probably used by Homo heidelbergensis.
Colchester Archaeological Trust
Conducts archaeological research and promotes the archaeology of Colchester; the site has descriptions of several of the sites CAT has excavated as well as some results of recent surveys.
Deeping St James
A Bronze and Iron Age saltworks on the Fens in Cambridgeshire, an article in British Archaeology
East Anglia Vikings
Viking occupation began in East Anglia in 866 AD, and it transformed culture and society, an article from British Archaeology.
Flag Fen
A Bronze Age pastoralist site near Fengate in Cambridgeshire, Flag Fen has its own website for the archaeological park, with links to the Time Team episode and events for schoolchildren.
Great Holts Farm (Essex)
Great Holts Farm is in Boreham, and was discovered during quarry operations. The site has several periods of occupation; this page reports on excavations conducted by the Essex County Council Planning Department Field Archaeology Group.
Maldon Archaeology
Web page for the Maldon Archaeological & Historical Group research at Lofts Farm and other projects in Essex.
Map of East Anglia
From Pictures of England.com, a map of East Anglia, and some information about the history.
Saxon Shore Forts
Coastal defenses of Roman Britain; an article in the Athena Review.
Wandlebury
An Iron Age hillfort with Bronze and Neolithic occupations in Cambridgeshire. Page is from the Cambridge Preservation Society's website.
West Stow
Anglo-Saxon settlement on the River Lark in West Suffolk, now an archaeological park; the page is from the St. Edmundsbury Borough Council.

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