yo SCIENTIFIC SURVEY OF NORWICH AND DISTRICT 
ROMAN. 
The early alliance of the Iceni with the Roman power was broken by 
Boudicca’s rising and the devastation of the area which followed. 
Prof. Donald Atkinson’s excavations at Gayton Thorpe 4°—a winged 
corridor building—show that it was occupied between A.D. 150 and 300, 
and both here and at Caistor the backwardness of the Romanisation is 
obvious. ‘The results of the investigations at Caistor, the county town 
of the Iceni, set afoot by the wonderful air photographs, will be available 
for the meeting. 
Brancaster and Burgh Castle were important Saxon Shore forts, the 
buildings at Caister-by-Yarmouth may be related to Burgh Castle on 
the opposite shore, whilst R. R. Clarke’s find at Stiffkey suggests a 
possible signal station, which may also be the explanation of isolated 
pottery finds at Muckleburgh and Beeston. Remains of buildings at 
Ashill, Baconsthorpe, Brundall, Dunham, Fring, Grimston, Howe, 
Methwold, Reedham and Weeting; coin hoards at Beechamwell, Carleton 
St. Peter, Caston, Elmham, Great Melton and Wilney ; a silver dish at 
Mileham and pigs of lead from Saham Toney, do not much relieve the 
impression of the general poverty of the remains. 
Whilst the Icknield Way has every appearance of being pre-Roman, 
the direct course of Peddar’s Way and its lack of settlement sites have 
suggested Roman influence, and recent excavations show that certain 
sections at any rate belong to the first century. Phillip’s discovery of 
Lincolnshire roads *” leading to a ferry across the Wash to some extent 
links up with the Norfolk evidence. A road southward from Brancaster, 
one along the line of the Ipswich Road from Norwich, and a short stretch 
of E.-W. road in Mid-Norfolk are all that can be definitely recognised as 
Roman. 
ANGLO-SAXON. 
Documentary evidence of the Anglian conquest is entirely lacking, 
but the geographical position of the country gives it great importance 
for the study of the earliest invaders. Unfortunately among the Angles 
cremation was the rule, and the numerous discovered burials are in 
general lacking in the information that attends inhumation. The 
occasional occurrence of inhumation prompted Reginald Smith to 
suggest an intrusive non-Anglian element. In any case the great 
cemeteries at Walsingham, Castle Acre, Elmham, Shropham, Hargham 
and Markshall were excavated so long ago that the recorded finds need 
expert re-investigation. Much is expected of Mann’s recent work near 
Caistor. Inhumation burials of the pre-Christian period (anterior to 
A.D. 700) are known from Hockham, Sporle, Northwold, Walton, Bacton 
and Santon; the forthcoming Ordnance Survey map of Britain in the 
Dark Ages should be of much help in collating the isolated discoveries. 
The position of the burials at Hunstanton, Castle Acre, Thraxton and 
Brettenham along Peddar’s Way suggests invasion by way of the Roman 
48 Norfolk and Norwich Arch. Soc., XXIII (1928), pp. 166-209. 
7 Antiquity, VI, No. 23, Sept. 1932, p. 343. 
