This site lies in the vicinity of Exning/Newmarket on the Cambridgeshire–Suffolk border, an area of dispersed Roman rural settlement on the chalk uplands at the edge of the Fen-edge zone. Activity in this landscape typically spans the later 1st to 4th centuries AD, characterised by small farmsteads, field systems and occasional villa establishments rather than nucleated towns.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The settlement sits within the productive agricultural hinterland between the small town of Cambridge (Duroliponte) to the west and the Icknield Way corridor, contributing to the cereal and livestock economy that supplied both local markets and, indirectly, military demand. The wider Exning area has produced evidence including a Roman villa at Landwade, suggesting this was a moderately prosperous rural zone rather than a marginal one.
This site lies in the vicinity of Exning/Newmarket on the Cambridgeshire–Suffolk border, an area of dispersed Roman rural settlement on the chalk uplands at the edge of the Fen-edge zone. 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 villa and Iron Age settlement N of Reach Bridge (3.8 km), Romano-British settlement 200m west of Allington Hill (5.7 km), Iron Age ritual enclosure containing a Bronze Age barrow, and Roman cemetery (7.1 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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