This entry refers to a surviving length of Roman road northeast of Barningham Park, in south Suffolk near the Norfolk border. The road is part of the network connecting settlements in the territory of the Iceni and trinovantine borderlands, likely active from the later 1st through 4th centuries AD. As a rural road segment rather than a settlement, it functioned as a local communication route linking farmsteads, small towns, and the wider provincial road system.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Roads of this type were the connective tissue of Roman civilian Britain, enabling movement of agricultural produce, goods, and people between East Anglian small towns such as Pakenham, Ixworth, and Long Melford. This particular stretch is significant primarily as one of relatively few visibly preserved Roman road alignments in a region where most have been ploughed flat or fossilised only as parish boundaries and field lines.
Little has been published specifically on this segment; it is recorded principally as an earthwork or cropmark feature, identified through fieldwalking, aerial photography, and the alignment of modern boundaries. No excavation results of note are recorded for this stretch, and details of its construction (agger width, metalling) remain unverified in the published record.
This entry refers to a surviving length of Roman road northeast of Barningham Park, in south Suffolk near the Norfolk border. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Length of Roman road NE of Barningham Park 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 villa at Stanton Clair (4.1 km), Ixworth (7.7 km), Ixworth Roman villa (8.1 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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