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Three rows of Iron Age wooden posts were discovered on Beccles marshes in 2006, prompting experts to undertake a number of archaeological digs to try to unravel their significance. A similar site was found in nearby Barsham the following year.
A team from the University of Birmingham has now descended on a third site by the river at Geldeston after similar posts were unearthed as flood defence work was carried out last summer.
Dr Ben Gearey, a lecturer in archaeology at the University of Birmingham, said the sites are “pretty rare” and are all likely to be linked, with Barsham and Geldeston appearing to be aligned with each other across the river.
“There are not many other sites in the country like this,” he said.
Talking about the Geldeston site, he added: “We seem to have a line of posts, possibly a triple line of big oak posts.
“We do not have a date yet, but the posts have tool marks on them typical of iron tools, so it is looking like probably being Iron Age, maybe Romano-British. We have also found fragments of Romano-British pottery. It is certainly late prehistoric.
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/prehistoric_wooden_posts_found_at_third_waveney_site_1_945262
The dig was featured in BBC Digging for Britain 2011, with Alice Roberts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01539xm
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