Time Team Excavation Site Alfoldean

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This is West Sussex, one of the very first parts of Britain to be Romanised. And it's amazing how little some things have changed here over the past 2000 years.

There's still the agriculture, the rolling hills, and of course the A29 or as the Roman's would've known it, Stane Street, the main road between Chichester and London.

What has disappeared though is the thriving Roman settlement which would've once flanked this road including a mansio, a Roman hotel used by the empires officials as they travelled the country.

And yet we know almost nothing about mansios or how they fitted in to the wider landscape. This is a rare opportunity to shed some light on a little known aspect of Roman life in Britain. But, we'll have our work cut out.

This whole site, is over half a kilometer long with 300 years of Roman activity, and of course we've got just three days to find out