This site comprises Roman-period burials together with later medieval settlement traces and a post-medieval ditched enclosure, situated east of the parish church of St Mary's. The Roman activity likely represents a peripheral cemetery associated with a small rural settlement or villa estate active in the 2nd–4th centuries AD, characteristic of the densely occupied Cotswold landscape during the Roman period.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The site sits within one of the most intensively Romanised rural zones of Britain, where villas, farmsteads, and small nucleated settlements clustered along the Fosse Way and tributary valleys, contributing to the agricultural surplus that supplied regional towns such as Cirencester (Corinium Dobunnorum). The juxtaposition of Roman burials with later medieval occupation suggests long-term locational continuity, with the church often acting as a focus that drew successive phases of activity.
Little detailed published evidence is available for this specific site beyond the recorded presence of inhumation or cremation burials and stratified medieval remains overlain by a later enclosure ditch — a typical signature of small-scale developer
This site comprises Roman-period burials together with later medieval settlement traces and a post-medieval ditched enclosure, situated east of the parish church of St Mary's. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman burials, medieval settlement remains and a later ditched enclosure east of St Mary's Church 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 Romano-British villa 350m south east of Abbotswood (1.1 km), Chessels Roman site (2.7 km), Broadwell Roman villa 300yds (275m) NW of church (3.2 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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