The Romano-British settlement at Church Farm lies in the coastal plain of West Sussex, in the hinterland between Chichester (Noviomagus Reginorum) and the eastern South Downs. Sites of this character in the area typically represent small agricultural settlements or farmsteads occupied from the later 1st through 3rd or 4th centuries AD, often developing from late Iron Age antecedents and supplying the markets and villa estates of the civitas Reginorum.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The site forms part of the dense pattern of rural settlement that filled the productive agricultural landscape south of the Downs, an area heavily exploited under Rome and closely tied economically to Chichester and the well-known villa estates of the Sussex coastal plain (e.g. Fishbourne, Southwick, Angmering).
The Romano-British settlement at Church Farm lies in the coastal plain of West Sussex, in the hinterland between Chichester (Noviomagus Reginorum) and the eastern South Downs. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British settlement at Church Farm 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 Bignor (3.3 km), Seven sections of Stane Street Roman road between Eartham and Bignor, a prehistoric linear boundary and two bowl barrows (6.9 km), Roman mansio and settlement, 535m north-east of Penn House (7.1 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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