Historical place profile
Thistleton Roman Town
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.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:79712
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:79712
- Place type
- settlement, temple-2, villa
- Coordinates
- 52.751592, -0.647386
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
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.
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 8 G2 Thistleton
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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