The Roman small town south of Great Staughton lies in west Cambridgeshire (formerly Huntingdonshire), on lower ground near the Kym valley and within a few miles of Ermine Street to the west and the Bedford–Godmanchester road. It appears to have been a roadside settlement active from the later 1st through the 4th century AD, of modest scale typical of the lesser nucleated sites that punctuated the agricultural landscape of the Nene–Ouse interfluve.
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Its role was primarily economic and local-administrative — a market and service hub for the surrounding villa estates and farms of this fertile clay-and-gravel zone, channelling agricultural surplus toward larger centres such as Godmanchester (Durovigutum) and Irchester. It has no recorded military or religious prominence.
A substantial Roman building at Great Staughton, excavated in the 1950s–60s, produced evidence of a winged-corridor villa or associated structure with tessellated floors, painted wall plaster and a long use-sequence, set within a scatter of occupation debris, coins and pottery indicating a more extensive settlement. Beyond this and surface finds from fieldwalking, the wider "small town" footprint remains poorly defined, and no full plan from geophysics or open-area excavation has been published.
The Roman small town south of Great Staughton lies in west Cambridgeshire (formerly Huntingdonshire), on lower ground near the Kym valley and within a few miles of Ermine Street to the west and the Bedford–Godmanchester road. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman Small Town south of Great Staughton 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 site, Rushey Farm (0.9 km), Durovigutum (13.2 km), Roman barrow adjacent to Ermine Street, 290m east of St Bartholomew's Church (13.9 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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