Gallow’s Hill, Swaffham Prior

History of Gallow's Hill, Swaffham Prior

Local to large Roman Villa and near Devil’s Dyke

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Excavation here was reported in 2006 in CASVol XCV. It is a Romano-British temple complex just south of Devil’s Dyke overlooking a Roman villa 1km away in Reach. The site was reused by Early Anglo-Saxons as a burial ground.

The conclusion is that there was a religious centre associated with a villa. There were possibly two temples. Later it was used as a place of burial by emerging elite families during the Early Anglo-Saxon period.