It is supposed that at this time a Saxon chief called Tace, or possibly Tac or Tec, led his men up the navigatable rivers Thames and Kennet as far as the ruined roman bridge. Here they probably disembarked and move some distance to the northwest where they erected a large village which they called Taceham (the village of tace) on the site of the modern centre of Thatcham.
The Saxon village probably consisted of a collection of huts of wood or wattle and doub, roofed with thatch, the whole settlement being enclosed within a palisade fence. The inhabitants settled down to become a peaceful farming community and the village prospered, eventually being incorporated into the Saxon kingdom of Wessex.
