This site near Brickkiln Farm, in the West Sussex coastal plain south of the South Downs, represents a sequence of rural settlement spanning the later Iron Age through the Roman period, with an indigenous farmstead succeeded or overlain by a Romano-British villa. Occupation likely ran from the 1st century BC into the 3rd or 4th century AD, fitting the regional pattern of native enclosures developing into modest masonry villas under the territory of the Atrebates/Regni.
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The site lies within the agriculturally rich hinterland of Noviomagus Reginorum (Chichester) and the palatial complex at Fishbourne, a zone of unusually dense villa development that served as the economic engine of the civitas Reginorum. Its continuity from Iron Age farmstead to villa illustrates the absorption of native landholders into the Roman estate economy rather than wholesale displacement.
Specific excavation results for this site are not well published, and knowledge appears to derive principally from cropmark evidence, fieldwalking, and surface finds of building material (tile, possibly tesserae) and pottery indicating both Iron Age and Romano-British phases. Without targeted excavation the plan, status, and precise chronology of the villa remain unclear, and I would not invent details beyond what comparable West Sussex sites (e.g. Chilgrove, Up Marden) suggest.
This site near Brickkiln Farm, in the West Sussex coastal plain south of the South Downs, represents a sequence of rural settlement spanning the later Iron Age through the Roman period, with an indigenous farmstead succeeded or overlain by a Romano-British villa. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Iron Age farmstead and Roman villa, 360m SSW of Brickkiln Farm 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 Roman villa on Warren Down (1.4 km), Chilgrove (2 km), Batten Hanger (3.7 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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