Wycomb (near Andoversford, Gloucestershire) was a Romano-British small town and religious complex situated in the Coln valley on the Whiteway road, active from the later 1st century through the 4th century AD. It combined a roadside settlement with a major temple precinct, occupying a substantial area of several hectares and serving the rural Cotswold hinterland between Cirencester (Corinium) and Wroxeter.
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The site is notable primarily as a cult centre — one of several rural religious foci in the Cotswolds, comparable to nearby Nettleton and Uley — while also functioning as a local market and craft/service node for the surrounding villa-rich landscape east of Corinium.
Antiquarian investigations from the 1860s onwards (notably by W.L. Lawrence) revealed building foundations, a probable temple, coins, brooches, and other small finds; more recent geophysical survey and fieldwalking have defined a planned settlement with streets, enclosures, and structures spread along the road. The full ground plan and the identity of the temple's deity remain unclear, and the site has never been comprehensively excavated to modern standards.
Wycomb (near Andoversford, Gloucestershire) was a Romano-British small town and religious complex situated in the Coln valley on the Whiteway road, active from the later 1st century through the 4th century AD. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman small town at Wycomb 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 Whittington Court Roman villa and old village (1.3 km), Whittington (1.6 km), Wycomb (2.2 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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