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Outer defences of Roman town, W of St Genevieve's Convent is a scheduled ancient monument comprising the surviving earthwork remains of defensive fortifications associated with a Roman settlement in Dorset. The defences date to the Romano-British period and represent part of the structural evidence for Roman urban occupation and military organisation in this region. The monument's physical character is preserved as earthwork banks and ditches visible in the landscape west of the convent site. These outer fortifications are significant as archaeological evidence of Roman town planning and defensive architecture in Britain during the period of occupation.
Outer defences of Roman town, W of St Genevieve's Convent is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002380. View the official record →
Outer defences of Roman town, W of St Genevieve's Convent is a scheduled ancient monument comprising the surviving earthwork remains of defensive fortifications associated with a Roman settlement in Dorset.
Outer defences of Roman town, W of St Genevieve's Convent is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1002380.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Multi-period archaeological landscape centred on and including a slight univallate hillfort called Chalbury, two bowl barrows, part of a Bronze Age urnfield and a series of medieval strip fields (6.5 km), Preston Roman villa (7.7 km), Barrow 500yds (450m) E of village (8.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Outer defences of Roman town, W of St Genevieve's Convent's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Outer defences of Roman town, W of St Genevieve's Convent stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.