Cadastre of Venta Icenorum (South Norfolk A)

Parameters

Module: 709.5m
Angle: N 11.077 W
"Origin": TM 2417 8658

Description

This cadastre is a centuriation which appears to have been first established in the early 60s AD. The map below shows (in black) existing landscape features, on 1:50,000 maps, which correspond to its limites . The straight red lines represent the quintarii . These are at a spacing of five centuries. Known or suspected Roman roads are also coloured in red.

The centuriation appears to have been modified by later local parcelling, for details see an article in the apparently defunct web journal "Evolutions".

Further Information

Click here or on the corresponding symbol on the map below.

Oblique relationships (evidence for planning).
Reconstructed views of Venta Icenorum.
Theories of the origin of this Ancient Landscape.

Based on the 1974 and 1981 Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 maps with the permission of the Controller of her Majesty's Stationery Office "C" Crown Copyright.

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Last updated on 13 August 2009 by John Peterson.

(e-mail j.peterson@uea.ac.uk)