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The site 500m WSW of New Barn is a Romano-British villa with evidence of earlier Iron Age settlement. The villa represents the Romano-British period of occupation and use, demonstrating the continuity of settlement activity across the Iron Age and Roman periods on this Sussex location. The presence of Iron Age remains indicates pre-Roman habitation of the site, suggesting that this area maintained strategic or economic importance through successive periods of occupation. The villa itself belongs to the broader pattern of rural Romano-British settlement in Sussex, where such villas served as centres of agricultural production and local authority during the Roman occupation of Britain.
Romano-British villa and traces of Iron Age occupation 500m WSW of New Barn is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015886. View the official record →
The site 500m WSW of New Barn is a Romano-British villa with evidence of earlier Iron Age settlement. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015886.
Romano-British villa and traces of Iron Age occupation 500m WSW of New Barn 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 1015886.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Ringwork 400m NNW of Batworthpark House (3.3 km), Highdown Hill Camp: A Ram's Hill type enclosure, an Anglo-Saxon cemetery and associated remains (3.9 km), A 19th century artillery fort known as Littlehampton Fort, 317m south west of the Windmill Theatre (4.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Romano-British villa and traces of Iron Age occupation 500m WSW of New Barn'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.
Romano-British villa and traces of Iron Age occupation 500m WSW of New Barn stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.