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Last summer, Alconbury Weald welcomed Professor Alice Roberts and the Digging for Britain team to Oxford Archaeology’s latest excavation, which provided a rare insight into society in the later Roman period, before the fall of the Roman Empire and the start of the Dark Ages in Britain. In episode 2 of Series 11 of Digging for Britain – which aired on BBC2 on 3 January 2024 and is available to download on iPlayer - Professor Roberts reflects on a “time of incredibly heightened anxiety many centuries ago” as the Roman Empire was coming to an end.
