This site lies in the lower Wharfe valley between Tadcaster (Calcaria) and York (Eboracum), an area within the agricultural hinterland of the legionary fortress at York. As a villa in this zone it most likely operated from the later 2nd through 4th centuries AD, supplying grain and produce to the military and urban markets at Eboracum, though precise date ranges for this specific establishment are not securely recorded.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Villas in the Vale of York and lower Wharfe corridor were comparatively modest by southern British standards but economically important as suppliers to Eboracum, the provincial capital of Britannia Inferior from the early 3rd century. Their distribution reflects the romanisation of the native Brigantian landscape under direct military influence rather than the dense civilian villa economy seen further south.
This site lies in the lower Wharfe valley between Tadcaster (Calcaria) and York (Eboracum), an area within the agricultural hinterland of the legionary fortress at York. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman villa is classified as a Roman villa — 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 Calcaria (3.1 km), Two Roman forts, two Roman camps, vicus, Iron Age enclosure, Bronze Age barrows and Neolithic henge monument west of Newton Kyme (6.3 km), Roman road near Hazelwood Castle (6.5 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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