Archaeology
There is evidence of human presence dating back to the Palaeolithic period - around 10,000 BC). The village occupies the site of an ancient British town and there is known to have been occupation during the Roman period, although Benson’s written history dates back only as far as AD 571.
Recent excavations at the site of a new housing site at the junction of St. Helen’s Avenue and Church Road revealed evidence of early Neolithic (3500 BC) and later Bronze Age or early Iron Age (11th–8th centuries BC) pits and postholes, as well as a possible later Bronze Age roundhouse and three early or middle Saxon (5th–6th centuries AD) sunken-floored buildings and a small Saxon enclosure.
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