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The Roman mansio and settlement located 535 metres north-east of Penn House is a roadside way-station and associated settlement of Roman date situated in Sussex. The site represents the archaeological remains of a mansio, a type of posting-station that provided accommodation and facilities for official travellers and merchants using the Roman road network. The settlement demonstrates the patterns of roadside economic activity characteristic of Romano-British frontier and provincial territories, with evidence of both the formal infrastructure of the mansio and informal occupation in its vicinity. The precise dating and extent of occupation remain subjects of archaeological investigation, though the site's designation reflects its importance as a documented Roman-period monument in the Sussex landscape.
Roman mansio and settlement, 535m north-east of Penn House is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1005866. View the official record →
The Roman mansio and settlement located 535 metres north-east of Penn House is a roadside way-station and associated settlement of Roman date situated in Sussex. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1005866.
Roman mansio and settlement, 535m north-east of Penn House 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 1005866.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Prehistoric linear boundary on Wepham Down (8.1 km), Dalesdown Wood earthworks (8.3 km), Cross dyke on Barpham Hill, 600m north west of Lower Barpham (8.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Roman mansio and settlement, 535m north-east of Penn House'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 mansio and settlement, 535m north-east of Penn House stands on Gault Formation And Upper Greensand Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is mudstone, sandstone and limestone.