The mansio at Weston's Farm lies on the line of the Roman road known as the London–Brighton Way (Margary 150), in the parish of Alfold/Dunsfold on the Surrey–Sussex border. It is interpreted as a roadside posting station serving the cursus publicus, likely active from the later 1st through 3rd centuries AD, occupying a position between the iron-working zone of the Weald and the road's northern stretches toward Londinium.
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Its principal role was logistical — providing changes of horses, overnight accommodation, and a state-controlled relay point on a road that primarily served the Wealden iron industry, one of the largest extractive operations in Roman Britain. As such it formed part of the administrative infrastructure linking imperial iron production to the markets and military supply chains of the south-east.
The site was identified through fieldwork on the Margary road alignment, with surface finds and earthworks suggesting a roadside enclosure and associated structures, but it has not been the subject of major published excavation; details of plan, building forms, and finds assemblage remain limited in the literature. Comparable Wealden roadside stations (e.g. Alfoldean, a short distance south on Stane Street) suggest a ditched rectangular enclosure with timber and possibly later masonry ranges, though this should not be assumed for Weston's Farm without further investigation.
The mansio at Weston's Farm lies on the line of the Roman road known as the London–Brighton Way (Margary 150), in the parish of Alfold/Dunsfold on the Surrey–Sussex border. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a mansio / station site from the Roman period in Britain.
Mansio at Weston's Farm is classified as a Roman mansio / station — 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 Part of a Roman road 250m south of Stubb Hill Farm (1.9 km), Roman road at Chapel Common (3.2 km), Iping (3.4 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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