This Romano-British site, located in the north Cotswolds near the Warwickshire/Worcestershire/Gloucestershire borders, comprised a civilian settlement with an associated cemetery, likely occupied from the later 1st through the 4th century AD. Sites of this type in the region typically functioned as small rural settlements or roadside hamlets engaged in mixed agriculture, lying within the prosperous villa-dotted hinterland of the Fosse Way and the towns of Alcester (Alauna) and Bidford.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Such settlements formed the economic backbone of the Cotswold countryside, supplying agricultural produce to nearby towns and major villas (e.g. Chedworth, Spoonley Wood) and integrating the rural population into the wider provincial economy. The presence of a formal cemetery indicates a stable, long-lived community rather than a transient occupation.
This Romano-British site, located in the north Cotswolds near the Warwickshire/Worcestershire/Gloucestershire borders, comprised a civilian settlement with an associated cemetery, likely occupied from the later 1st through the 4th century AD. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British cemetery and settlement site is classified as a Roman settlement — 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 villa S of The Grove (3.6 km), Roman small town at Dorn (4.8 km), Dorn (6.1 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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