The coordinates place this site in the area of Stretton Grandison / Castle Frome in eastern Herefordshire, on the line of the Roman road running north from Magnis (Kenchester) towards Worcester. This was a small roadside settlement or vicus active broadly from the later 1st to the 4th century AD, characteristic of the minor nucleated settlements that developed along the principal roads of the Welsh Marches.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Its role was primarily economic and infrastructural — serving traffic on the Kenchester–Worcester road, providing local marketing for the surrounding rural population, and possibly functioning as a posting or rest station. It is one of a chain of such roadside settlements (with Blackwardine to the north) that articulated the civilian landscape of the Dobunnic/Cornovian borderland.
Aerial photography and fieldwalking have produced scatters of Roman pottery, building debris, and cropmarks suggesting enclosures and trackways, but the settlement has seen no major modern excavation and its plan and extent remain poorly defined. Finds are consistent with a modest, predominantly timber-built settlement rather than a substantively masonry small town.
The coordinates place this site in the area of Stretton Grandison / Castle Frome in eastern Herefordshire, on the line of the Roman road running north from Magnis (Kenchester) towards Worcester. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman settlement 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 Roman fort and outworks 550yds (500m) SW of Canon Frome Court (0.5 km), Roman villa E of the Rectory (6.2 km), Roman settlement (16.7 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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