This Romano-British settlement lies on Lansdown Hill, north of Bath (Aquae Sulis), in the vicinity of the 17th-century monument commemorating Sir Bevil Granville's death at the Battle of Lansdown (1643). It appears to have been a modest rural settlement of the 1st–4th centuries AD, situated on the limestone plateau overlooking the Avon valley, in an area with dense Iron Age and Romano-British activity associated with the hillfort and field systems of Little Down.
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Its proximity to Aquae Sulis (c. 4 km south) places it within the agricultural and economic hinterland of the spa town, likely supplying produce and possibly engaged in stone quarrying or pewter/lead working — industries known from the wider Mendip and Bath region. The Lansdown plateau hosted a notable concentration of Roman-period sites, including a probable religious focus and metalworking activity.
The Lansdown area has produced surface finds of pottery, coins, building debris and evidence of metalworking from antiquarian and later fieldwalking investigations, particularly the work of W. Skrine and later researchers in the 19th and 20th centuries. Specific excavated detail for this particular site east of the monument is limited in the published record, and its character is largely inferred from surface scatter and aerial evidence rather than systematic excavation.
This Romano-British settlement lies on Lansdown Hill, north of Bath (Aquae Sulis), in the vicinity of the 17th-century monument commemorating Sir Bevil Granville's death at the Battle of Lansdown (1643). It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British settlement E of Sir Bevil Granville's Monument 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 camp 405m west of The Bungalow (1.7 km), Wick (2.6 km), Newton St. Loe (5.8 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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