Scheduled MonumentsEnglandRoman settlement and drove at Fen Farm

Roman settlement and drove at Fen Farm

England
List entry 1013482
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1013482
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
13.77 hectares
Grid reference
TF 16525 34526
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Fen Farm is a Roman settlement and drove located in Lincolnshire, England. The site contains evidence of Roman occupation and activity, including features associated with a drove or trackway system that served the agricultural and commercial needs of the settlement. The remains date to the Roman period and represent the type of dispersed rural settlement pattern characteristic of Romano-British landscapes, where farmsteads and their associated infrastructure supported both local subsistence and wider economic networks.

Roman settlement and drove at Fen Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013482. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Roman settlement and drove at Fen Farm?

Fen Farm is a Roman settlement and drove located in Lincolnshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013482.

Who is responsible for protecting Roman settlement and drove at Fen Farm?

Roman settlement and drove at Fen 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 1013482.

What other scheduled monuments are near Roman settlement and drove at Fen Farm?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Roman settlement by Fen Road, south of Poplar Farm (3.2 km), Bronze Age saltern (3.4 km), Moated site NE of Sempringham House Farm (3.9 km).

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Overview
An interactive map of the location with every monument and battle plotted, and a plain-language history built only from what the record holds.
Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
Laser-scanned terrain that reveals earthworks hidden under fields and woodland, with likely features flagged.
Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.
Literature
The books, county histories, charters and archives that mention this place, quoted with their sources.
Legal
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The ground beneath

The bedrock under Roman settlement and drove at Fen Farm

Roman settlement and drove at Fen Farm stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.