Witham

Witham is a town in the area of Essex in the East of England, with a populace of 25,353. It is a piece of the District of Braintree and is twinned with the town of Waldbrol, Germany. Witham remains between the city of Chelmsford 8 miles toward the south-west and the town of Colchester, on the Roman street between the two. The River Brain goes through the town and joins the River Blackwater simply outside.

Unearthings by Essex County Council field archeological unit at the ongoing Maltings Lane improvement found proof of Neolithic occupation at Witham, including human remains and a few trackways crosswise over old bog. Unearthings of the Witham Lodge region of the town in the 1970s divulged stays of a Roman sanctuary and also a stoneware furnace. This would have been close by the primary Roman street from Colchester to London and utilized as a stopover point on the long adventure.

Another outstanding find amid the unearthing was a votive offering pool in the grounds of the sanctuary, containing a few antiquities that would have been offered to the divine beings. In 913, as per the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Edward the Elder walked from Hertford to reconquer Essex, and stayed in Witham on his course to set up a base at Maldon. Witham's situation on the Roman street in connection to the significant Viking armed force based at Colchester was the in all probability purpose behind this, and it would have adequately cut Essex in two.