Suffolk

Artefacts dating to around 70,000 years ago found at Pakefield and Beeches Pit are among the earliest evidence of human activity in northern Europe. In the Neolithic period and Bronze Age burial mounds, hillforts and causewayed enclosures were built reflecting Suffolk's role in prehistoric trade and agriculture. At the start of the Roman period most of Suffolk was, along with Norfolk inhabited by the Iceni tribe. The Trinobantes inhabited parts of southern Suffolk, as well as Essex. The Iceni unsuccessfully revolted under Boudica in AD 60–61. Although Suffolk remained predominantly rural in the Roman period there were villas, small towns and pottery kilns. By the late 4th century, however,…