This Romano-British settlement lies in the South Dorset landscape east of Dorchester (Durnovaria), within the territory of the Durotriges. The coordinates place it in the hinterland of the civitas capital, in an area densely populated with farmsteads, villas, and small nucleated settlements active broadly from the 1st through 4th centuries AD, often with Late Iron Age antecedents.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Sites of this kind formed the agricultural base supporting Durnovaria and the wider Durotrigian countryside, contributing to the region's well-documented mixed arable and pastoral economy. The South Dorset chalkland is notable for the continuity of native settlement patterns into the Roman period and for proximity to the major ceramic industry at Poole Harbour (Black Burnished ware).
This Romano-British settlement lies in the South Dorset landscape east of Dorchester (Durnovaria), within the territory of the Durotriges. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British 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 Tudor and 17th century farmstead and Romano-British settlement (6.4 km), Roman road W of Ashley Barn (10 km), East Creech villa (10.3 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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