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Pode Hole Farm is a Roman field system and drove way located in Cambridgeshire, England. The site preserves evidence of Romano-British agricultural organisation, including surviving field boundaries and a drove or trackway that facilitated the movement of livestock and access to fields during the Roman period. The field system demonstrates the practical management of rural land in Roman Britain, reflecting the integration of pastoral and arable farming practices characteristic of the period. Such drove ways were essential infrastructure in the Roman countryside, connecting settlements, fields, and grazing lands across the landscape.
Roman field system and drove at Pode Hole Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015503. View the official record →
Pode Hole Farm is a Roman field system and drove way located in Cambridgeshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015503.
Roman field system and drove at Pode Hole 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 1015503.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 730m WSW of Gores Farm (2.3 km), Bowl barrow 430m north east of Prior's Fen Farm (3.7 km), Bowl barrow 225m north east of Prior's Fen Farm (3.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Roman field system and drove at Pode Hole 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 field system and drove at Pode Hole Farm stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.