The coordinates (51.095°N, 1.680°W) place this site in the chalk downland on the Hampshire–Wiltshire border, in the vicinity of the Chute causeway and the upper Bourne valley — an area criss-crossed by the Roman road running from Winchester (Venta Belgarum) towards Cirencester (Corinium) via Cunetio (Mildenhall). A civilian Roman earthwork in this setting is most likely the boundary, enclosure or settlement remains of a small rural farmstead or villa estate active broadly between the later 1st and 4th centuries AD.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Such earthworks form part of the dense pattern of native-Roman agricultural settlement exploiting the productive chalk uplands of northern Hampshire and the Wiltshire borders — a hinterland supplying grain and livestock to nearby towns and the road network. Individually modest, these sites collectively illustrate the integration of Iron Age populations into the Roman provincial economy.
The coordinates (51.095°N, 1.680°W) place this site in the chalk downland on the Hampshire–Wiltshire border, in the vicinity of the Chute causeway and the upper Bourne valley — an area criss-crossed by the Roman road running from Winchester (Venta Belgarum) towards Cirencester (Corinium) via Cunetio (Mildenhall). It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman earthwork 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 road between A30 main road and Winterslow Corner (2.9 km), Section of Roman road by Upper and Lower Noad's Copse (3.7 km), Roman villa at East Grimstead (5.5 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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