The Roman site at Olney lies in the Ouse valley in north Buckinghamshire, on or near the line of a probable Roman road linking Towcester (Lactodurum) with the Sandy/Godmanchester area. It appears to have been a small roadside settlement or rural nucleation active broadly through the Roman period (1st–4th centuries AD), of the kind common along minor routes in the south-east Midlands.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Its likely role was as a low-status civilian settlement serving local agricultural production and providing wayside services along a secondary route through a well-populated villa landscape (the Ouse valley between Olney, Lavendon and Irchester is rich in Roman rural sites). It was not a town and has no known administrative or military function.
The Roman site at Olney lies in the Ouse valley in north Buckinghamshire, on or near the line of a probable Roman road linking Towcester (Lactodurum) with the Sandy/Godmanchester area. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman site at Olney 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 Roman villa 300m south east of Newton Lodge Farm (2.1 km), Piddington (9.7 km), Unnamed Mine (10.4 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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