Hibaldstow was a roadside settlement in northern Lincolnshire, located on Ermine Street roughly midway between Lincoln (Lindum) and the Humber crossing at Winteringham. It developed as a small nucleated settlement, probably from the later 1st century AD and continuing through the 4th century, with a planned strip-building layout flanking the main road typical of such *vici* in the region.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Its primary role was as a service and market centre along one of Britain's principal trunk roads, serving local agricultural communities and travellers between Lincoln and the Humber. It is one of several similar small towns on this stretch of Ermine Street (alongside Owmby and Kirmington-area sites), reflecting the dense Romanised settlement pattern of the limestone wolds and clay vales of north Lindsey.
Aerial photography and geophysical survey (notably work published by the Department of Archaeology at Sheffield and in regional Lincolnshire studies) have revealed a substantial settlement with rectilinear enclosures, strip buildings fronting the road, ditched plots, and a possible shrine or temple complex on the periphery; surface finds include coinage, brooches, and pottery spanning the 1st to 4th centuries. Excavation has been limited compared to the scale of the cropmark complex, so much of the site's internal chronology and function remains known principally from non-intrusive survey rather
Hibaldstow was a roadside settlement in northern Lincolnshire, located on Ermine Street roughly midway between Lincoln (Lindum) and the Humber crossing at Winteringham. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Hibaldstow 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 Romano-British settlement near Staniwells Farm (1.7 km), Untitled (2.1 km), Romano-British villa at Mount Pleasant Farm (4.4 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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