Thistleton Roman Town

settlement · 30 BC – 2099 AD

A small town of the Roman era, with likely Iron Age antecedent and associated farmsteads and field systems, located near and around modern Thistleton, Market Overton, and Kendrew Barracks (the former RAF Cottesmore) in Rutland district, England. This archaeological landscape has been known and explored since at least the 19th century through chance finds, field walking, geophysical prospecting, targeted excavation, and aerial photography.

Coordinates

52.75159, -0.64739

Also known as

Market Overton (en), Market Overton (en), Rutland (en), Rutland (en), Thistleton (en), Thistleton (en)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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