![]() ![]() However, the enclosure was used well into the 4th century, as the centre of a villa estate. This was occupied, either by an official or a noble until it was partly flattened about 60 AD. An inner enclosure of 1 hectare, was built in the north-west corner, probably just before the Conquest. It was probably built in the 1st century BC as a minor oppidum - the regional centre and seat of a local chieftain with market, administrative and religious functions. The enclosure is bivallate, roughly rectangular and encloses 7 hectares. This report brings together the results of three periods of excavation, 1900–1901, 1947–1957, and 1975. Only two other sites in the county are broadly comparable, Barnham and Clare Camp, but the latter is not definitely Iron Age. Burgh is the largest Iron Age fortification in Suffolk, still visible at ground level. ![]()
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