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Oaklands Farm 2, Five Lanes

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 07051g
Trust : Glamorgan Gwent
Community : Caerwent
Unitary authority : Monmouthshire
NGR : ST44909135
Site Type (preferred type first) : ROMAN CROPMARK / Unknown Settlement

Summary :
System of enclosures, trackways and ?huts identified on aerial photos.
The site was recommended for scheduling by Evans in 2001 as the site is an Iron Age enclosed farmstead with associated field system, apparently replaced by two successive villa buildings, one on the same site and one with a change of site but embellished with tessellated pavements. Neither type is common in South East Wales, and the site gains further importance from its association with the Roman town at Caerwent.

Description :
System of enclosures and ?trackways showing as cropmarks, including two roughly concentric, widely-spaced ?ditches surrounding the rectangular building PRN 7050g; also what looks like a cluster of roundhouses immediately to the E of the building, between the two ditches but nearer to the inner one. Appears on an air photograph taken in 1996 by John Sorrell.
(Evans 2001)

Aerial photograph
Taken in a drought summer and shows the walls of a simple Roman villa. A single rectangular structure with a veranda and internal rooms. The villa's boundary is oval. The parching shows a small wall with five stone bases placed at intervals. The old Iron Age and Roman field systems show as dark green lines (ditches) in various fields (Sorrell 2917)

Sources :
Evans, E M , 2001 , Romano-British southeast Wales settlement survey: Final report ( © GGAT)
Sorrell. J. , 2017 , Hidden History: Archaeology from the air in South-East Wales
Mein, A G, 1995, Five Lanes, Caerwent, Archaeol Wales 35, 54-5
01/Mm AP Gazeteer/2004 January/Sorrell John/Aerial Archaeological Photographs of Gwent/SMR
Morgan, O, 1855, Excavations...within the walls of Caerwent, Archaeologia 36, 427OS, 1957, Record card ST 49 SW 2

Events :
E001657 : Romano-British Southeast Wales Settlement Survey (year : 1998-2001)

Related records
GGAT Historic Environment Record (HER) 00983G
GGAT Historic Environment Record (HER) 07050g
GGAT Historic Environment Record (HER) 07052g

Compiled date : 30-04-2002


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