More information : [Centred at SU 84402607] Probable Roman earthwork (mansio ?)
visible as relief-markings. (1)
A rectangular earthwork - a probable Roman mansio - consisting of bank, ditch and slight counter-scarp bank. It has rounded corners. The enclosed area is 86 X 112 m. and is bisected by the modern road. This is doubtfully on the line of the Roman road as there is a possible entrance at SU 84352615 - `E'.and a `bump' where the modern road overlies the rampart at SU 8443260I - `F'. The north-eastern corner, `G', has been mutilated by an occupation road. No knowledge of finds was gained in local enquiry. See GPs AO/F/49/2-6. (2)
In the broad plain of Iping Marsh there is a strong local tradition of a buried Roman town or settlement but nothing definite has been found except parts of a paved roadway within living memory. (3)
A posting-station or mansio was found at Iping in the routine examination of air-photographs by the Archaeology Division of the Ordnance Survey. (4-5)
In 1956 a house was erected in the western half of the mansio and potsherds found were identified as Roman at the British Museum. There are further mutilations in the south-west corner by farm-buildings and chicken-runs. Elsewhere the earthworks are under grass; mole-scrapes yielded many small RB potsherds. A 25" survey has been made. (6)
Scheduled. (7)
No change. Surveyed at 1:2500. (8)
The location of the Roman name `ONNA', recorded in Ravenna Cosmography, is unknown, but listed as between Noviomagus (Chichester) and Venta Belgarum (Winchester), so that the possibilities include the Roman defended site at Iping and the settlement at Neatham (see SU 74 SW/14). Either of these is more likely, both in position and importance, than Richmond and Crawford's (a) suggestion of Nursling (SU 31 NE/20). (9)
NB Although generally referred to as being at `Iping', the site is in fact in the parish of Milland c.1km N of the border with the parish of Stedham with Iping. (10)
Additional reference and AP. (11)
Additional references. (12-14) |