Historical place profile
Harpham Roman Villa and Settlement
An extensive Roman courtyard complex and associated crossroads settlement in East Yorkshire, lying to the immediate north of the modern Harpham Grange and northwest of Burton Agnes. A small portion of the mostly invisible site was excavated in the early 20th century, with a second (never published) excavation following in the 1950s. A 2019 geophysical survey and its publication (Maw 2021) have made the site more sensible and better documented.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:89197
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:89197
- Place type
- road, settlement, villa
- Coordinates
- 54.039993, -0.337224
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An extensive Roman courtyard complex and associated crossroads settlement in East Yorkshire, lying to the immediate north of the modern Harpham Grange and northwest of Burton Agnes. A small portion of the mostly invisible site was excavated in the early 20th century, with a second (never published) excavation following in the 1950s. A 2019 geophysical survey and its publication (Maw 2021) have made the site more sensible and better documented.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 9 G6 Harpham
Source and reuse
This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.
Research path
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