The Rose Hill Farm site lies in the Fen-edge landscape of west Norfolk/Cambridgeshire borderland, in an area densely occupied by Roman-period rural settlement from the late 1st to 4th centuries AD. It appears to have been a modest native-tradition farmstead with associated ditched enclosures, likely engaged in mixed agriculture exploiting the fen-edge fen and the lighter soils above.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Sites of this kind formed the basic economic fabric of the Fen-edge, an area of intensive Roman exploitation (often linked to imperial estates) supplying grain, livestock, and salt to wider markets, including the Car Dyke transport system and military supply networks in the north. Individually unremarkable, such farmsteads are collectively significant as evidence for the dense rural settlement pattern that characterised this region.
The Rose Hill Farm site lies in the Fen-edge landscape of west Norfolk/Cambridgeshire borderland, in an area densely occupied by Roman-period rural settlement from the late 1st to 4th centuries AD. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman farmstead and adjacent enclosures 300m east of Rose 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 Feltwell (10.2 km), Shouldham Priory with associated water management features, a section of a Roman road and a Bronze Age urnfield (12.3 km), Hockwold (13.1 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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