Owmby is a Romano-British roadside settlement in Lincolnshire, situated on Ermine Street roughly midway between Lincoln (Lindum) and the Humber crossing. Occupation appears to span the later 1st to 4th centuries AD, with the site developing as a nucleated rural settlement and probable minor market or service centre serving traffic on the main road north from Lincoln.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Its significance lies in its position on Ermine Street within the territorium of the colonia at Lincoln, functioning as one of a string of roadside settlements (alongside places like Hibaldstow and Kirmington) that supported travel, local agricultural production, and small-scale trade in the Lincolnshire Wolds region.
The site is known principally from extensive metal-detecting and surface finds, which have produced large quantities of Roman coins, brooches, and other small finds indicative of sustained occupation and exchange activity; some controlled fieldwork and geophysical survey has identified ditched enclosures and structural traces, but no major published excavation report exists, and the settlement's internal layout remains only partially understood.
Owmby is a Romano-British roadside settlement in Lincolnshire, situated on Ermine Street roughly midway between Lincoln (Lindum) and the Humber crossing. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Owmby Roman settlement 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 Owmby (3.4 km), Scampton (7.4 km), Roman villa W of Scampton Cliff Farm (8.1 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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