Wimpole Lodge is the site of a Romano-British civilian settlement in south Cambridgeshire, located on the Wimpole Estate near the line of Ermine Street. Active from the 1st through 4th centuries AD, it appears to have functioned as a small rural settlement or farmstead complex, likely with associated agricultural land exploiting the fertile chalk-clay soils of the region.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The site lies within a densely settled Roman landscape between the small towns of Cambridge (Duroliponte) and Braughing, and reflects the pattern of dispersed rural settlement and villa estates that supplied agricultural produce to nearby urban centres and the wider provincial economy.
Fieldwalking, aerial photography and geophysical survey across the Wimpole Estate have identified scatters of Romano-British pottery, building debris including tile, and cropmark enclosures suggestive of ditched field systems and possible structural remains. Limited formal excavation has taken place at this specific findspot, so its precise plan and status — whether a modest farmstead or part of a more substantial villa complex — remain uncertain.
Wimpole Lodge is the site of a Romano-British civilian settlement in south Cambridgeshire, located on the Wimpole Estate near the line of Ermine Street. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Wimpole Lodge 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 Arrington Bridge Romano-British site (2.8 km), Moulton Hills Roman barrows (6.2 km), Hey Hill: a Roman barrow 260m south west of Lord's Bridge (6.6 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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