Great Dunmow was a small roadside settlement (a "small town") on Stane Street, the Roman road linking Braughing and Colchester (Camulodunum), active from the mid-1st century AD through the 4th century. The Easthill House Gardens area lies at the southeastern edge of the settlement and includes evidence of a Romano-British religious complex alongside domestic and roadside occupation.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The site functioned as a minor route-station and local market centre serving the agricultural hinterland between the major centres of Colchester and Verulamium, with the southeastern zone notable for containing a temple/shrine complex — placing ritual activity, as was typical, on the settlement's periphery.
Excavations directed by N.P. Wickenden in the 1970s–80s revealed a Romano-Celtic temple, a possible secondary shrine, associated enclosures, burials, and quantities of votive material, pottery, and coinage, alongside evidence of timber buildings and roadside ditches. The findings were published in *East Anglian Archaeology* (Wickenden 1988, "Excavations at Great Dunmow, Essex: a Romano-British small town in the Trinovantian Civitas").
Great Dunmow was a small roadside settlement (a "small town") on Stane Street, the Roman road linking Braughing and Colchester (Camulodunum), active from the mid-1st century AD through the 4th century. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
SE corner of Roman town in Easthill House Gardens is classified as a Roman settlement — 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 Temple of Claudius (0.3 km), Ad Ansam (0.4 km), Col. Camulodunum (0.4 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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