Abercyfor is a putative Romano-British villa or rural settlement site in Carmarthenshire, south-west Wales, situated in the lower Tywi valley not far from the Roman civitas capital of Moridunum (Carmarthen). Any occupation would most plausibly fall within the 2nd–4th centuries AD, when a modest scatter of Romanised rural establishments developed in the agriculturally favourable lowlands around Carmarthen.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
If a villa, Abercyfor would be one of the westernmost examples of villa-style settlement in Roman Britain, lying in a region (the Demetae territory) generally characterised by the persistence of native enclosed farmsteads rather than Romanised estate centres. Such sites are significant precisely because they suggest limited but real adoption of Roman building forms in the hinterland of Moridunum.
Abercyfor is a putative Romano-British villa or rural settlement site in Carmarthenshire, south-west Wales, situated in the lower Tywi valley not far from the Roman civitas capital of Moridunum (Carmarthen). It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Abercyfor is classified as a Roman villa — a civilian site in the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer. Roman Britain's archaeology encompasses thousands of sites ranging from legionary fortresses and marching camps to villas, temples and towns.
Several Roman sites lie within a short distance, including Carmarthen (2.8 km), *Moridunum (3.1 km), Roman amphitheater at *Moridunum (3.1 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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