Cuckoo's Corner forms part of the small Roman roadside settlement at Neatham in east Hampshire, situated on the road from Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum) to Chichester (Noviomagus Reginorum) where it crossed the River Wey. The settlement was active from the mid-1st century AD through to the late 4th or early 5th century, functioning as a modest nucleated "small town" with associated agricultural and craft activity along the road frontage.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Neatham was one of a series of minor roadside settlements in central southern Britain serving as a local market and waystation between the larger civitas capitals, with a likely role in collecting agricultural surplus and facilitating regional trade. It is among the better-investigated small towns of the region, providing a useful comparator for understanding lower-tier urbanism in the territory of the Atrebates/Belgae.
Excavations by Millett and Graham in the 1970s, published in 1986, revealed timber and later masonry buildings, wells, ovens, ditches and substantial quantities of pottery, coins and metalwork including evidence for ironworking, indicating sustained occupation through the Roman period. The Cuckoo's Corner area specifically has produced enclosure features and structural evidence consistent with the settlement's peripheral zone, though detail published under that precise locality name is limited.
Cuckoo's Corner forms part of the small Roman roadside settlement at Neatham in east Hampshire, situated on the road from Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum) to Chichester (Noviomagus Reginorum) where it crossed the River Wey. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Cuckoo's Corner Roman settlement, Neatham 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 Cuckoo's Corner Roman site, Neatham (0.4 km), Roman villa SW of Wyck Place (2.4 km), Neatham (2.7 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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