This Romano-British villa lies in the parish of Wolferton on the eastern edge of the Wash, in northwest Norfolk, roughly 400m west of the farmstead known as White House. It appears to have been a modest rural villa of the type common in East Anglia, likely active from the 2nd to 4th centuries AD, situated on the lighter soils above the fen edge — a location favoured for mixed agricultural production and access to coastal and fen resources.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The site forms part of the dense pattern of villas and farmsteads exploiting the productive fen-edge landscape of west Norfolk, an area tied economically to the imperial estates of the Fens and to salt production along the Wash. Its position suggests a working agricultural establishment rather than a high-status display villa, contributing to regional grain and livestock supply.
Little has been formally published on this specific site; it is known principally from surface finds — Roman building material (tile, tesserae), pottery scatters, and possibly hypocaust fragments — recorded through fieldwalking and the Norfolk Historic Environment Record rather than from systematic excavation. No detailed plan of the building has been recovered, and its size, layout, and precise occupation span remain undetermined.
This Romano-British villa lies in the parish of Wolferton on the eastern edge of the Wash, in northwest Norfolk, roughly 400m west of the farmstead known as White House. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British villa 400m west of White House 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 (4.1 km), Romano-British villa 250m south of Park Farm (4.7 km), Roman villa in and adjacent to Denbeck Wood (7.1 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
Aubrey Research generates detailed historical reports for any location in Britain, incorporating Roman heritage, Domesday Book records, scheduled monument data, archaeological finds and much more. Enter a nearby address to begin.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any address in Britain — drawing on Roman heritage, Domesday records, scheduled monument data, archaeological finds and medieval history to reveal the complete story of a landscape.
Research the area around Romano-British villa 400m west of White House