A Romano-British villa situated on the fen-edge of west Norfolk, roughly a mile east of its associated modern village. Like other villas in this part of Norfolk (e.g. Congham, Gayton Thorpe, Grimston), it likely originated as a modest aisled or winged-corridor farmhouse in the 2nd century and developed into a more substantial residence during the 3rd and 4th centuries, exploiting the rich agricultural land between the chalk uplands and the fen.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
West Norfolk villas formed part of a productive agrarian zone supplying grain, wool, and salt to wider markets, including the imperial estates often inferred for the Fens. The site sits within the hinterland of the small towns at Saham Toney/Threxton and the religious-economic complexes around Snettisham and Walsingham, suggesting a prosperous local elite tied into both fenland production and the road network leading north to Brancaster.
A Romano-British villa situated on the fen-edge of west Norfolk, roughly a mile east of its associated modern village. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman villa one mile (1600m) E of village 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 Gayton Thorpe (8.7 km), Roman villa at Gayton Thorpe (9.8 km), Well Hall Roman settlement (9.9 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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