This Romano-British civilian settlement lies in the Cam valley of north Essex/south Cambridgeshire, in the hinterland between the small towns of Great Chesterford to the north and Braughing/Braintree to the south. The coordinates place it in an area of dense rural settlement active from the mid-1st through 4th centuries AD, likely a farmstead or small nucleated rural settlement on the productive boulder-clay and river-gravel landscape that supported intensive arable production for regional markets.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Sites of this character formed the economic backbone of the civitas of the Trinovantes (or possibly Catuvellauni, depending on precise boundary), supplying grain and livestock to nearby small towns and ultimately to the provincial capital at Colchester. Individually modest, such settlements collectively represent the dense rural fabric that distinguishes this part of lowland Britain.
This Romano-British civilian settlement lies in the Cam valley of north Essex/south Cambridgeshire, in the hinterland between the small towns of Great Chesterford to the north and Braughing/Braintree to the south. 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 Ickleton (1.3 km), Roman villa site S of Rose Villa (1.9 km), Roman fort, Roman town, Roman and Anglo-Saxon cemeteries at Great Chesterford (2.2 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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