This site, located in the South Downs of West Sussex roughly between Chichester and Arundel, represents a Romano-British villa overlying or adjacent to earlier Iron Age occupation, a pattern of continuity common in this densely settled chalkland landscape. Active probably from the later 1st through the 4th century AD, it is one of numerous modest rural estates in the territory of the Regni, falling within the agricultural hinterland of Noviomagus Reginorum (Chichester).
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The villa lay within one of the richest villa landscapes in Roman Britain, the West Sussex coastal plain and Downs dominated by major sites such as Fishbourne, Bignor, and Angmering, and would have contributed grain, wool, and livestock to local and regional markets. Its association with prior Iron Age occupation indicates the indigenous origins typical of villa development in this region, where native landowners progressively Romanised their estates.
This site, located in the South Downs of West Sussex roughly between Chichester and Arundel, represents a Romano-British villa overlying or adjacent to earlier Iron Age occupation, a pattern of continuity common in this densely settled chalkland landscape. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British villa and traces of Iron Age occupation 500m WSW of New Barn 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 Angmering (2.2 km), Muntham Court Romano-British site (7.5 km), Regular aggregate field system with prehistoric and Romano-British farmsteads and a Bronze Age bowl barrow on Park Brow (10.9 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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