Hod Hill is the site of a large, rectangular Iron Age hill fort. After the Roman conquest, the Romans occupied the site.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Hod Hill is the site of a large, rectangular Iron Age hill fort. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a military camp site from the Roman period in Britain.
Hod Hill is classified as a Roman military camp — a military 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 Roman villa 300yds (270m) W of Park House Farm buildings (3 km), Two Late Iron Age or Romano-British enclosed settlements with part of an associated field system 420m NNW of South Farm (6.4 km), Roman villa on Little Barton Hill (7.1 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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