holds a Roman bronze head of Bacchus found at Thaxted in the nineteenth century. The first documented record of Thaxted, including a church, is in the Liber Eliensis, describes a gift of land in "Thacstede" by a woman named Æthelgifu at some time between 881 and 1016.

Archeological research of the area by Oxford Archaeology in 2007 produced finds showing Bronze Age, late Iron Age,