This entry refers to cropmark evidence northeast of the modern village and the walled town of Durobrivae itself — almost certainly part of the extensive extramural settlement and industrial sprawl that surrounded the town from the later 1st century AD through the 4th century. Durobrivae began as a vicus attached to a Neronian/early Flavian fort and grew into one of the largest small towns of Roman Britain, with suburbs extending well beyond its 44-acre defended core.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Durobrivae was the administrative and commercial hub of the Lower Nene Valley pottery industry, one of the largest ceramic-producing regions in the Western Empire, supplying colour-coated and grey wares across Britain in the 3rd–4th centuries. The town and its hinterland also yielded the Water Newton Treasure, the earliest known set of Christian liturgical silver from the Roman Empire.
Aerial photography (notably by St Joseph and subsequent NMP transcription) has revealed a remarkable density of streets, enclosures, kilns, and stone buildings extending for over a kilometre around the walled town, with the NE sector showing trackways, field systems, and probable
This entry refers to cropmark evidence northeast of the modern village and the walled town of Durobrivae itself — almost certainly part of the extensive extramural settlement and industrial sprawl that surrounded the town from the later 1st century AD through the 4th century. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Air photography site NE of village and site of Roman town is classified as a Roman settlement — 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 Great Casterton (0.3 km), Empingham (4.9 km), Roman villa east of Foster’s Bridge (7 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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