Historical place profile

Hayling Island Saxon Settlement

Between ca. 570-900 CE (radio-carbon dates), a Saxon-era settlement and possible ritual site flourished on and around the location of an earlier Iron-Age/Roman sanctuary in the northern part of modern Hayling Island (borough of Havant, Hampshire, England).

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:339319311
Catalogue ID
pleiades:339319311
Place type
archaeological-site, settlement
Coordinates
50.821899, -0.972697
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

Between ca. 570-900 CE (radio-carbon dates), a Saxon-era settlement and possible ritual site flourished on and around the location of an earlier Iron-Age/Roman sanctuary in the northern part of modern Hayling Island (borough of Havant, Hampshire, England).

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: Pleiades

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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