We have a fascinating insight into Roman lives in what is now Ferry Meadows thanks to the Coney Meadow Cemetery, which was in use around 200-300AD. Archaeologists discovered that the people who were buried here had tough lives, through analysis of skeletons found at the site. These skeletons give us an understanding of death and disease in Roman Britain, through a family with arm abnormalities, children with ear infections and women with new-born babies. There were also fragments of cheap, rough pottery close to the burials and a large aisled barn nearby.
