East Anglia in the 4th and 5th Centuries AD

Friday 24th November, 7.30pm, followed by AGM

Rampton Village Hall

East Anglia in the 4th and 5th centuries AD: what we think we know (and what know we don’t)

By Sam Lucy (University of Cambridge)

Recent research on the final publications for two well-known and thoroughly investigated sites, Roman Mucking in Essex and the major cremation cemetery at Spong Hill in Norfolk, have prompted major shifts in our understanding of the late 4th and 5th centuries in East Anglia. Sam Lucy will explore the changes in chronological schemes that have resulted and their implications for social and cultural change.

Dr Sam Lucy is an archaeologist of Roman and Early Medieval Britain, and Admissions Tutor at Newnham College Cambridge. After completing a PhD at Newnham, Sam held a lectureship at Durham University for nine years, before returning to a full-time research role at the Cambridge Archaeological Unit in 2004, and then taking up the post of Undergraduate Admissions Tutor at Newnham in 2009. Specialising particularly in funerary archaeology and key periods of transition in the fourth to seventh centuries AD, she is currently working on a number of publications, including the Anglo-Saxon royal cemetery at Bamburgh, Northumberland and the Roman and Anglo-Saxon sites at Babraham in Cambridgeshire.

ALL WELCOME.