Lammas Field is the site of a Romano-British villa located in the parish of Western Bury (Hertfordshire/Bedfordshire borderlands), on the chalk uplands north of the Chilterns. Like most villas in this region, it was likely established in the late 1st or 2nd century AD and continued in occupation into the 4th century, functioning as the centre of a mixed agricultural estate exploiting the productive arable land of the area.
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The villa sits within a densely settled rural landscape between the small towns of Baldock, Braughing and Verulamium (St Albans), the regional civitas capital of the Catuvellauni, and would have produced grain and livestock for those urban and roadside markets. It is one of many modest villas in this belt rather than a high-status site comparable to Gadebridge Park or Gorhambury.
Very little is recorded specifically for Lammas Field; the site is known principally from surface finds — Roman building material (tile, tesserae) and pottery scatters — recovered through fieldwalking and reported to the local Historic Environment Record, with no published excavation. The scale, plan and precise chronology of the building therefore remain undetermined.
Lammas Field is the site of a Romano-British villa located in the parish of Western Bury (Hertfordshire/Bedfordshire borderlands), on the chalk uplands north of the Chilterns. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Lammas Field Roman villa, 680m north east of Western Bury 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 Baldock (3.9 km), Radwell Roman villa (6.1 km), Wymondley Roman Villa (6.7 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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