The Roman house west of the vicarage lies within the area of Ilchester (Lindinis) in southern Somerset, a small but significant Roman town that flourished from the later 1st century AD into the 4th century. The structure appears to represent a domestic building, likely of modest urban or suburban character, active during the town's main period of occupation when Ilchester served as a regional centre on the Fosse Way.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
As part of the suburban or peripheral settlement around Lindinis, the building contributes to understanding the extent and density of occupation beyond the town's defended core, an area that became a civitas capital of the Durotriges by the later Roman period. Such houses illustrate the prosperity generated by the surrounding villa-rich landscape of the Somerset levels and Polden Hills.
Little detailed published record survives for this specific structure, though comparable evidence from Ilchester (e.g. excavations on Church Street and the Great Yard) typically reveals stone-footed buildings with tessellated or mortar floors, painted wall plaster, and 2nd–4th century pottery and coin assemblages. Without specific excavation records, its plan, dating and status remain inferred from the wider Ilchester urban context.
The Roman house west of the vicarage lies within the area of Ilchester (Lindinis) in southern Somerset, a small but significant Roman town that flourished from the later 1st century AD into the 4th century. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman house W of vicarage 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 Low Ham (5.1 km), Low Ham Roman villa (5.5 km), High Ham (6.7 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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