East Anglia in the 4th and 5th centuries: new evidence from settlements and burials
Recent excavations, and further analysis of older excavations, in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, have involved re-evaluation of chronological sequences in the later 4th and 5th centuries. Dr Sam Lucy will discuss her work on a series of settlement and cemetery projects, including Mucking and Spong Hill, and outline how thinking about these sites is shifting and the implications for further research.
Speaker: Dr Sam Lucy
Dr Sam Lucy is an archaeologist specialising in Late Roman and Early Medieval Britain, with a particular focus on mortuary evidence.
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. She has held a variety of roles at Cambridge University.
Research interests focus on 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.
FREE for FRAG Members
Non-members welcome – £5 cash, payable on the night
(card payment not currently possible)
The Venue for FRAG Talks has changed for Autumn 2026:
Flag Fen Archaeology Park
The Droveway
Northey Road
Peterborough PE6 7QJ
There is on-site parking available.
The talk will take place in the visitor centre.
