Staffordshire Church Gems - St James Church Traditional Cache
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Staffordshire Church Gems - St James Church
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The Etymology of the Name Acton Trussell
Acton is a fairly common place-name in England and in most cases, including this one, is derived from ac, the Old English word for 'oak', and tun, meaning 'farmstead'. Since there are many places called Acton, Norman administrators introduced the practice of manorial suffixes in order to eliminate confusion, whereby the name of the predominant family was affixed to the common place-name. Thus by the year 1481 the settlement was named Acton Trussel after the Trussel family, who are named in manorial records from 1342, though they had possibly lived here for many years prior to this date. (Mills, p.2; Poulton-Smith, pp.8-9)
Stone-Age Acton Trussell (c.10,000 - 2,000B.C.)
The only archaeology at Acton Trussell which leads us to believe that there was any activity during the Stone-Age is a large flake of flint found in the garden of 'Pineways' (SJ 938 179) in 1972 and now held at the Staffordshire County Museum. Flint is not found in the local geology and this piece must have been brought here by ancient man sometime during the Mesolithic period c.10,000 - 4,000B.C.. (AHDS)
Roman Acton Trussell (A.D.43 – 410)
Acton Trussell Roman Villa
Lies Behind Saint James' Church
Roman Villa at St. James' Church
The Church at Acton Trussell is distinctly separate from the rest of the village, being situated almost 300 yards to the south of the Moat House which marks the southern extent of modern settlement, and this fact has sparked speculation that Acton Trussel may represent a 'shifted village'. Field studies conducted in 1979 in the area between the village and the church in order to test this theory came across evidence of former Romano-British occupation in the form of pottery sherds and two Roman coins. Further investigations involving field-walking and aerial reconnaissance conducted over the following four years were to reveal nothing more of interest. However, following ploughing of the field to the south of the church in 1985, field-walking recovered more pottery and more importantly, fragments of Roman building materials. This led to the discovery in May 1985 of the substantial remains of a Roman Villa lying in the area to the rear of St. Leonard's Church (SJ937174). Excavations conducted between 1985 and 1997 by the Tong Archaeological Research Group and the Penk Valley Archaeological Group to the immediate east of the churchyard revealed the remains of the villa and its rectangular defensive enclosure ditch, later replaced by a stone wall, much of which lies buried beneath the church and its attendant graveyard. The excavations uncovered the foundations of an apsidal building, semicircular on the inside surface and semi-hexagonal on the outside which may have formed the north wing of the villa running westwards beneath the church itself. Some 39 coins recovered during excavations and field-walking indicate an occupation from the 2nd to mid-4th centuries; the investigations also recovered many other Romano-British artifacts including 23 fibulae brooches, several sherds of Samian pottery, curved imbrex and flat tegula roof tiles, an iron door-key, a pair of bone hairpins, a silver ring and a military-style belt ornament, along with the bones of cattle and fish, much of which was recovered from an ancient rubbish pit.
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