Warwickshire County Website: http://timetrail.warwickshire.gov.uk/de ... nuid=WA798
"Summary: Site of the Roman town of Chesterton by the side of the Fosse Way. Site consists of a defended enclosure and an extensive extramural area of roads, buildings and boundaries. Occupation appears to run from the 1st to 4th century AD.The settlement is approximately 27 ha in extent.
A programme of geophysical survey was carried out within the Roman town enclosure in 1991. The magnetometer survey showed up several interesting features interpreted as a possible road to the west and buildings to the north. The rest of the site showed a mixed complex of features: of particular interest was a possible bridge over the defensive ditch to the west. In 1992-3 a further survey in surrounding fields to the W and S of the town revealed Roman activity over a larger area than previously known. A further 100 30m x 30m squares revealed the presence of a very large Roman settlement with mixed magnetic results. When analysed these appeared to represent a pattern of ditches, walls, pits, earthworks and other linear features. There was also a sharply defined line running from the main defensive enclosure suggesting a possible road, with ditches either side, going to Chesterton village. The W side of the settlement is overlain by ridge and furrow running across the site and cutting a major ditch which extends for 160m to the N. High magnetic readings and iron slag visible in the field suggest industrial activity.
A Vision of Britain: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place ... ?p_id=8676
"A Roman camp, supposed by some to have been the Roman station Mediolanum, is within the parish on the Fosse way; and has yielded Roman coins."
Warwickshire Archaelogical Research Team: http://www.archaeology.co.uk/index.php? ... &Itemid=80
Contact
Contact name: David Adams
Contact Position: Director
Contact Address: Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, CV33 5NA
Telephone: 07961 341386
Details
Staff: 3
Members / Students: 12
Founded: 1990
The Chesterton Project. The Team have discovered Roman settlements of national importance. We have partly excavated and surveyed the Chesterton Roman house and Mosaics. Also a program of geophysical surveys of the Roman Town and settlement at Windmill Farm.
A typical small Roman Town:
