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Venta Icenorum is a Roman town situated near Caistor St Edmund in Norfolk, England, which served as the principal settlement and administrative centre of the Iceni tribe during the first and second centuries AD. The site comprises the substantial remains of the Roman town, including defensive earthworks and street patterns visible as surface features, together with earlier Iron Age occupation and later Anglo-Saxon and medieval activity that accumulated on and around the Roman core. Founded in the first century AD following the Roman conquest of Britain, Venta Icenorum flourished as a walled town with markets, administrative buildings, and residential areas before declining in the late Roman period. The monument presents an important record of Roman urban development in East Anglia and the long sequence of settlement occupation spanning from prehistoric times through the medieval period.
Venta Icenorum: Roman town and associated prehistoric, Anglo-Saxon and medieval remains is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1021463. View the official record →
Venta Icenorum is a Roman town situated near Caistor St Edmund in Norfolk, England, which served as the principal settlement and administrative centre of the Iceni tribe during the first and second centuries AD. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1021463.
Venta Icenorum: Roman town and associated prehistoric, Anglo-Saxon and medieval remains 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 1021463.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Anglo-Saxon cemetery SW of Markshall Farm (0.8 km), Multi phased site dating from the Neolithic to the Anglo-Saxon period east of Harford Farm (1.2 km), Roman sites outside town walls (1.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Venta Icenorum: Roman town and associated prehistoric, Anglo-Saxon and medieval remains's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Venta Icenorum: Roman town and associated prehistoric, Anglo-Saxon and medieval remains stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.