The Roman foundations east of Barton Road lie on the outskirts of Mancetter (Manduessedum), a small roadside settlement and fort site on Watling Street in north Warwickshire, active from the mid-1st century AD through to the later 4th century. The foundations likely represent part of the vicus or extramural civilian settlement that grew up alongside the early auxiliary fort and continued as a roadside small town serving traffic on Watling Street.
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Mancetter was a significant point on Watling Street between Letocetum (Wall) and Venonis (High Cross), and is best known as a major centre of mortarium production in the 2nd and 3rd centuries, supplying much of the province. The civilian settlement was modest but economically active, with industrial as well as residential functions.
Excavations across the Mancetter complex have revealed pottery kilns (notably those of Sarrius, Iunius and Vitalis), timber and stone buildings, defensive ditches of a later small town enclosure, and evidence of two early forts. Specific published detail on the Barton Road foundations themselves is limited, but they are consistent with the strip-building and workshop pattern typical of the settlement's roadside frontage.
The Roman foundations east of Barton Road lie on the outskirts of Mancetter (Manduessedum), a small roadside settlement and fort site on Watling Street in north Warwickshire, active from the mid-1st century AD through to the later 4th century. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman foundations E of Barton Road 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 Manduessedum Roman villa and settlement with associated industrial complex (10.6 km), Manduessedum (11 km), Sapcote (13.2 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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