This is a Roman barrow located 380m north of Hill Farm in Cambridgeshire, situated in the gently undulating landscape near the Nene valley. Romano-British barrows of this type typically date to the 2nd century AD and represent the burials of wealthy rural individuals — likely a local landowner or member of a prosperous farming family — interred under a conspicuous earthen mound in a tradition that blended native British and Roman funerary practice.
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Such isolated barrows are characteristic of the eastern counties (particularly Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, and Hertfordshire), reflecting the wealth of the rural elite in the civitas of the Catuvellauni or Iceni and their adoption of a hybrid funerary monument visible across the landscape. The Bartlow Hills group and the Eastern England barrow tradition more broadly indicate this was a deliberate statement of status by Romanised native aristocrats.
Little is published about this specific barrow; it survives as an upstanding earthwork and is scheduled, but no formal excavation report appears in the public record. Comparable regional barrows, when excavated, have yielded cremation burials accompanied by glass vessels, samian ware, bronze flagons, and occasionally hobnailed shoes or lamps, placed in a central pit or wooden chamber beneath the mound.
This is a Roman barrow located 380m north of Hill Farm in Cambridgeshire, situated in the gently undulating landscape near the Nene valley. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman barrow 380m north of Hill 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 Durobrivae (Water Newton) (2.4 km), The fort and Roman walled town of Durobrivae and its south, west and east suburbs, immediately south and east of Water Newton Village (2.6 km), Roman house N of Castor Mills (2.6 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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