This site, located in the parish of St Agnes in west Cornwall, comprises a complex of later prehistoric to Romano-British rounds (small embanked enclosures characteristic of Cornwall) together with associated enclosures and an overlying medieval field system. The rounds were likely occupied broadly between the late Iron Age and the 3rd–4th centuries AD, functioning as small farmsteads housing a single extended family or kin-group engaged in mixed agriculture.
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Rounds represent the dominant rural settlement form in Roman-period Cornwall, reflecting a native population that continued indigenous traditions largely outside direct Roman administrative or military control, beyond the formal limits of villa economy. The proximity to the St Agnes area, with its tin and copper resources, raises the possibility that occupants participated in the regional metalliferous economy that drew Cornwall into wider Roman trade networks.
The site is known principally from earthwork survey and aerial evidence rather than excavation, with the curvilinear enclosure banks and traces of strip fields visible in the landscape; no published excavation results are recorded for this particular complex. Comparable excavated rounds in Cornwall (e.g. Trethurgy, Reawla, Carvossa) typically yield Romano-British coarsewares, South-Western Decorated ware, querns, and occasional imported finewares, providing a likely analogue for the material culture present here.
This site, located in the parish of St Agnes in west Cornwall, comprises a complex of later prehistoric to Romano-British rounds (small embanked enclosures characteristic of Cornwall) together with associated enclosures and an overlying medieval field system. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Later prehistoric to Roman round and enclosures with medieval field system 260m west of Coosewartha Farm is classified as a Roman site — 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 milestone at Mynheer Farm (4.7 km), Later prehistoric to Romano-British round and Bronze Age to Roman hut circles and enclosures, 230m north west of Callestock Veor (6.3 km), Magor (9.3 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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