Cunetio

Cunetio

The Roman town of Cunetio, located across the river from the modern town of Mildenhall, Wiltshire was occupied from the second century a.d. until the end of the Roman period, early fifth century, when it was apparently abandoned. It's location was identified from arial photos of crop marks taken in 1940, and the site has been sporadically excavated since the 1950s. In the 1960s, a small coin hoard was found, followed in 1978 by the much larger Cunetio Hoard of over 55,000 coins. The town grew around a mansio, built near a crossroad. Later in the town's evolution, a straight-road planned grid area was built, but by the fourth century, when some substantial town walls were erected, the planned streets lay outside the new walls and had presumably been abandoned by then. The site was dug in xxxx by Channel 4's Time Team, who found many more coins and other objects.


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