The Romano-British villa at Randolph's Farm lies in the coastal plain of East Sussex, in the hinterland of the Roman shore between Pevensey (Anderitum) and the inland Wealden iron-working zone. Like other villas in this region, it likely developed from a modest Late Iron Age or early Roman farmstead into a more substantial masonry-built rural establishment, with main occupation probably falling within the 2nd to 4th centuries AD.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The site sits within the agricultural economy of the South Downs/Sussex coastal plain, an area of relatively dense villa settlement that supplied grain and livestock to regional markets and potentially to the later Saxon Shore fort at Pevensey. It is not among the well-known Sussex villas (such as Bignor, Beddingham, or Barcombe) but contributes to the picture of dispersed, middle-ranking rural estates in the civitas of the Regni.
The Romano-British villa at Randolph's Farm lies in the coastal plain of East Sussex, in the hinterland of the Roman shore between Pevensey (Anderitum) and the inland Wealden iron-working zone. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British villa at Randolph's 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 Romano-British farmstead, field system and trackway on Wolstonbury Hill (1.3 km), Roman road and 18th century coaching road N of Pyecombe church (2.2 km), Romano-British farmstead 480m north west of Devil's Dyke Cottages (5.1 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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