Photographs and Plans of Caistor St Edmund Roman Town

Caistor St Edmund Roman town.  Artist's reconstruction showing how the town and its amphitheatre may have looked in about AD300 from the south. Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service.

Caistor St Edmund Roman town.  The plan shows the route of two walls around the property starting at the car park.  Red follows the "Roman Walk" and green the "River Walk".

© Norfolk Archaeological Trust.

Caistor St Edmund Roman town.  The red outline shows the extent of the property owned by the Norfolk Archaeological Trust.  Most of the town is included except for the street system to the east of the Norwich to Stoke Holy Cross main road.  The property covers 48 hectares. © Norfolk Archaeological Trust.  

Caistor St Edmund Roman town.  The one upstanding bastion which remains on the town walls lies at the west end of the town overlooking the River Tas.

© Sue White.  

Caistor St Edmund from the NW when the cropmarks of the Roman street pattern were showing particularly well in the corn in 1959.  The dark lines along some of the streets may represent street drains.  Traces of various buildings can be seen. © Cambridge University Collection of Air Photographs.  

Caistor St Edmund from the West in 1960.  The southern defences of the Roman town, were clearly cut through the pre-existing pattern of streets.  To the right are the dark lines of earlier defensive ditches, possibly for a legionary fortress pre-dating the town.  The parish church is in the background, alongside a Roman street. © Cambridge University Collection of Air Photographs.  

Caistor St Edmund, similar to the previous picture, but to the right is the oval outline of the Roman amphitheatre: a very exciting discovery, taken in 1960. © Cambridge University Collection of Air Photographs: Crown copyright/MOD.  

Caistor St Edmund Roman town.  Cropmarks on the opposite side of the Stoke Holy Cross road showing suburban spread beyond the rectilinear street system and also the three early defensive ditches, possibly from a first century legionary fortress, also seen on the south side. © Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service.  

Caistor St Edmund.  Excavation of the south gate by Prof. Donald Atkinson in 1934.  Little record of these excavations survive except for a few photographs. © G.A.F. Plunkett.  

Caistor St Edmund Roman town.  Workmen on the archaeological excavations conducted in the interior of the town in the 1930s. © Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service.  

Caistor St Edmund Roman town.  One of ten interpretation panels on walks around the site which explain the archaeology and ecology of the area.

© Sue White.

Caistor St Edmund Roman town.  The River Tas winds its way past the west end of the town.  This is one of two interpretation panels on the site explaining the plant species which can be seen.

© Sue White.