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Roman drove, enclosures and building platform at Chestnut Farm is a scheduled ancient monument comprising agricultural and domestic features of Roman date located in Cambridgeshire. The site consists of a drove way, associated field enclosures, and a building platform that illustrate patterns of Romano-British land use and settlement organisation. These remains, visible as earthworks and archaeological features, demonstrate the systematic agricultural infrastructure characteristic of the Romano-British period. The monument is protected as a scheduled ancient monument under national heritage legislation, reflecting its significance for understanding rural Roman settlement patterns in the East Midlands region.
Roman drove, enclosures and building platform at Chestnut Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009990. View the official record →
Roman drove, enclosures and building platform at Chestnut Farm is a scheduled ancient monument comprising agricultural and domestic features of Roman date located in Cambridgeshire.
Roman drove, enclosures and building platform at Chestnut Farm 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 1009990.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Fleet settlement site near Lambert Drain (2 km), Bowl barrow 620m north east of East Wryde Cottages (3.2 km), St Vincent's Cross (5.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Roman drove, enclosures and building platform at Chestnut Farm'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.
Roman drove, enclosures and building platform at Chestnut Farm stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.