The Romano-British villa south of Park Farm lies in the Norfolk fenland edge, near the parishes around Marshland St James/Walpole (north-west Norfolk). Based on regional parallels, it likely operated from the later 1st or 2nd century AD through to the 4th century, functioning as the residence and working centre of a modest agricultural estate exploiting the fertile silt fens and skirtland soils.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Villas are relatively uncommon in the Norfolk fens compared to the Cotswolds or central Britain, and this site contributes to evidence for private landholding alongside the predominantly imperial-estate or salt-production economy that characterised the surrounding Fenland. Its position fits a wider pattern of dispersed villa estates on the fen edge taking advantage of mixed arable, pasture, and access to fenland resources.
The Romano-British villa south of Park Farm lies in the Norfolk fenland edge, near the parishes around Marshland St James/Walpole (north-west Norfolk). It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British villa 250m south of Park Farm is classified as a Roman villa — 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 villa NE of Eaton (2.9 km), Romano-British villa 400m west of White House (4.7 km), Roman villa in and adjacent to Denbeck Wood (6.6 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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