The Leaze Farm site lies in the Upper Thames Valley near Lechlade in Gloucestershire, in an area densely occupied from the later Iron Age through the Roman period. Cropmarks and metal-detected finds indicate a rural settlement of probable late Iron Age origin continuing into the Roman period (likely 1st–4th centuries AD), characterised by enclosures and trackways typical of the small farmsteads that proliferated across the Cotswold gravel terraces.
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It forms part of the exceptionally dense pattern of agrarian settlement in the Upper Thames Valley, an important grain- and livestock-producing hinterland supplying the small towns of Cirencester (Corinium), Wanborough (Durocornovium) and the Roman roadside settlements of the region. Sites like this represent the economic backbone of Romano-British rural production rather than high-status occupation.
The settlement is known principally from aerial photographic transcription (showing ditched enclosures and field systems) and metal-detected surface assemblages including Roman coins and copper-alloy artefacts; no large-scale excavation has been published, so detail on internal structures, chronology and economy at Leaze Farm specifically remains limited.
The Leaze Farm site lies in the Upper Thames Valley near Lechlade in Gloucestershire, in an area densely occupied from the later Iron Age through the Roman period. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Leaze Farm 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 Iron Age and Romano British settlement remains and associated features, 1km south east of Leaze Farm (0.2 km), Lechlade Roman villa (3.2 km), Great Lemhill Farm Roman villa (4.8 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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