The latest dig by the community-led Caistor Roman Project (CRP) will see volunteers and experts excavating the defensive ditches around Caistor St Edmund - known in Roman times as Venta Icenorum.

Caistor Roman Town (Image: Archant)

The dig will take place in the grounds of Caistor Hall Hotel and focus on the early 2nd century ditches which formed part of a large defensive enclosure which surrounded the town.

The ditches have only been investigated twice before - south of the settlement in 2012 and to the north-east in 2016.

On those occasions both human and animal burials were discovered, along with personal and religious items and pottery vessels.

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