The Teg Down site comprises a Romano-British farmstead and associated field system on the chalk downland north-west of Winchester (Venta Belgarum). Like many such settlements in the chalkland hinterland of Winchester, it likely originated in the late Iron Age and continued through the Roman period, with activity probably spanning the 1st to 4th centuries AD, supporting mixed arable and pastoral agriculture.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The site formed part of the dense network of small rural farmsteads supplying Venta Belgarum, the civitas capital of the Belgae, with grain and livestock. It illustrates the continuity of indigenous farming patterns under Roman administration, with the field system reflecting organised exploitation of the downland.
Aerial photography and field survey have recorded the cropmarks and earthworks of a rectilinear "Celtic" field system with associated enclosures and trackways on Teg Down, but no major modern excavation has been published; finds reported from the vicinity include Romano-British pottery scatters. Detail beyond the broad morphology of the site is limited in the published record.
The Teg Down site comprises a Romano-British farmstead and associated field system on the chalk downland north-west of Winchester (Venta Belgarum). It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British farmstead and associated field system on Teg Down 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 Oram's Arbour (1.7 km), Venta (2.1 km), Sparsholt (2.8 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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