This site lies within the walled Roman town of Noviomagus Reginorum (Chichester), the civitas capital of the Regni, occupied from the mid-1st century AD through the late Roman period. The St Martin's Lane / Little London area sits in the north-east quadrant of the Roman town, an area known to contain domestic and possibly higher-status urban buildings rather than the public monumental core, which lay further west around the forum.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
As part of intramural Chichester, the site contributes to understanding the residential fabric of one of the earliest and most Romanised civitas capitals in Britain, closely linked to the client kingdom of Togidubnus and the nearby palace at Fishbourne. The north-east quadrant is particularly important for tracing the layout of the Roman street grid and the evolution of urban housing from timber to masonry forms.
This site lies within the walled Roman town of Noviomagus Reginorum (Chichester), the civitas capital of the Regni, occupied from the mid-1st century AD through the late Roman period. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
St Martin's Lane, Little London car park, Roman site is classified as a Roman site — 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 amphitheatre (0.5 km), Noviomagus (1 km), Fishbourne (2.3 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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