Callengeville is the site of a Gallo-Roman villa in the Pays de Caux of Upper Normandy (Seine-Maritime), located in the territory of the Caletes, not in Roman Britain despite the prompt's framing. Like other rural establishments in this region, it was likely active from the 1st through 3rd or early 4th centuries AD, functioning as an agricultural estate exploiting the fertile loess plateau north of the Seine.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The villa formed part of the dense network of grain- and stock-producing estates supplying the provincial capital at Rotomagus (Rouen) and the coastal ports of Lugdunensis Secunda, an economically important hinterland linked to cross-Channel trade. It is not individually notable but contributes to the well-documented pattern of intensive rural settlement in the Caux region.
The site is recorded in the Barrington Atlas (11 B3) on the basis of surface or aerial evidence typical of Caux villa identifications — cropmarks, building debris, ceramics — but no substantial published excavation is known to me. Specific structural details, plan, and finds assemblage for this particular site cannot be reliably described.
Callengeville is the site of a Gallo-Roman villa in the Pays de Caux of Upper Normandy (Seine-Maritime), located in the territory of the Caletes, not in Roman Britain despite the prompt's framing. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Callengeville 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 Vieux-Rouen (14.5 km), Roman theater at [Augusta] Ambianorum (23.7 km), [Augusta] Ambianorum (23.7 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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