The Roman site northwest of Woodgarston Farm lies in the chalk downland of north Hampshire, between Basingstoke and Kingsclere, in the hinterland of the small town at Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum). It is most likely a rural settlement or farmstead occupied during the Roman period (broadly 1st–4th centuries AD), part of the dense pattern of agricultural sites supplying Calleva and exploiting the productive arable landscape of the Hampshire downs.
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The site is one of many minor civilian settlements in the agricultural territory of Silchester, contributing to the cereal and livestock economy of the civitas Atrebatum rather than holding any obvious military or administrative role. Its location reflects the close integration of rural production with the road network and market centre to the north.
Little is published about this specific site; it is recorded principally through surface finds — likely Romano-British pottery, building debris (tile, possibly flint and mortar), and perhaps coins — rather than from formal excavation. Without targeted fieldwork its precise plan, status (simple farmstead vs. villa), and chronology remain undetermined.
The Roman site northwest of Woodgarston Farm lies in the chalk downland of north Hampshire, between Basingstoke and Kingsclere, in the hinterland of the small town at Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum). It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman site NW of Woodgarston Farm 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 Calleva (8.9 km), Roman amphitheater at Calleva Atrebatum (9.4 km), Length of Roman road in Bradley Wood (12.8 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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