A modern village in the East Riding of Yorkshire near which were found Neolithic cursus monuments and standing stones, two Iron Age Arras Culture cemeteries, and a fourth-century Romano-British villa.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
A modern village in the East Riding of Yorkshire near which were found Neolithic cursus monuments and standing stones, two Iron Age Arras Culture cemeteries, and a fourth-century Romano-British villa. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Rudston 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 Rudston Roman Villa (1.3 km), Romano-British villa east of Sandy Lane, 800m north west of Harpham Grange (4.4 km), Harpham Roman Villa and Settlement (6.2 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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