The Roman settlement north-east of Rowler, near Croughton in south Northamptonshire, is a small rural settlement of the type widespread across the claylands and limestone uplands of the South Midlands. It appears to have been occupied from the later 1st through the 4th century AD, broadly contemporary with the agricultural exploitation of the surrounding landscape along the upper Cherwell valley.
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The site lies within a densely settled rural hinterland between the small towns of Towcester (Lactodurum) on Watling Street and Alchester, and would have formed part of the agrarian economic base supplying these centres. It is one of many minor farmsteads in the region whose collective importance lies in illustrating the texture of Romano-British rural settlement rather than in any individual prominence.
Little has been published specifically about this site; it is recorded primarily through cropmarks, fieldwalking, and surface scatters of Roman pottery, tile, and occasional building material, suggesting a modest farmstead or villa-related enclosure complex rather than a high-status residence. No substantial excavation appears to have been undertaken, and detailed structural or chronological evidence is correspondingly limited.
The Roman settlement north-east of Rowler, near Croughton in south Northamptonshire, is a small rural settlement of the type widespread across the claylands and limestone uplands of the South Midlands. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman settlement 600m north east of Rowler 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.
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