Minor Romano-British Settlement

Hardham, West Sussex

NGRef: TQ0317
OSMap: LR197
Type: Minor Settlement
Roads
Stane Street: NNE (12) to Alfoldean
E (17) to Hassocks
Stane Street: SW (13) to NOVIOMAGVS REGNORVM

The Roman settlement at Hardham lay to the south of the crossing of Stane Street over the River Arun, just to the east of the confluence of the River Rother.

There is a Roman villa at Bignor (SU9814) about three miles (5km) along Stane Street to the south-west, and another in the oppposite direction along Stane Street at Pulborough (TQ0620), with a Romano-Celtic mausoleum nearby (TQ0618). There are substantial Roman buildings a few miles to the west along the Rother Valley at Duncton (SU9616) and to the immediate east of the settlement at Wiggonholt (TQ0617).

Click here for the Romano-British Walled Towns page

See: Historical Map and Guide - Roman Britain by the Ordnance Survey (3rd, 4th & 5th eds., 1956, 1994 & 2001).

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