Iping was a small roadside settlement in the western Weald, situated on the Roman road known as the Chichester–Silchester road (Margary 155) where it crossed the River Rother. Occupation appears to have run from the later 1st century AD into at least the 3rd century, with the site functioning as a minor wayside settlement rather than a town or villa estate.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Its significance lies in its position on a major north–south road linking the civitas capital of Noviomagus Reginorum (Chichester) with Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester), making it a likely staging point or local market node servicing traffic and the dispersed rural population of the Wealden fringe.
Antiquarian and 20th-century investigations on Iping Common identified the road agger and evidence of roadside occupation including pottery, tile, and traces of timber structures; relatively little has been published from modern excavation, and the settlement's full extent and internal layout remain poorly defined.
Iping was a small roadside settlement in the western Weald, situated on the Roman road known as the Chichester–Silchester road (Margary 155) where it crossed the River Rother. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Iping 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 Roman road across Iping Common and bowl barrow 180m north west of Fitzhall Lodge: part of Fitzhall Heath round barrow cemetery (1.1 km), Part of a Roman road 250m south of Stubb Hill Farm (1.4 km), Mansio at Weston's Farm (3.4 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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