Smaller finds included a variety of crafted objects such as pottery,[5] coins, tools and jewellery made from iron, bronze, stone, shale, glass and bone.

Larger finds included fourteen well-shafts which, due to their significant number, suggest water usage on an industrial scale – likely for the purposes of iron production.

[1] Cow Roast has been described by Dacorum Borough Council as, "One of the most important late Iron Age and Roman industrial landscapes in England.

"[7] Archaeological finds suggest that it was occupied as late as the 5th century, although the byway through the Chiltern Hills would have been an important transport conduit throughout the Roman occupation.

Subsequently, it continued to be known as part of a drovers' route until the mid-19th century,[8] with the area around the present-day Cow Roast settlement providing grazing for cattle.

One mile north-west of Cow Roast, a road named 'Cow Lane' may once have comprised part of a wider network of drove routes, together with the hollow ways and common land near Ashridge, Aldbury and Pitstone.

[11] The Cow Roast Inn ceased trading as a pub in September 2017, but the premises were redeveloped[12] and the venue reopened as a restaurant called 'The Artisan' in January 2024.

[14] During the construction of the Grand Junction Canal and locks,[15] a bronze Romano-British Coolus helmet was discovered; in 1813, this was acquired for display in the British Museum.

The grounds are named after a prominent former player, captain of the First XI, club president and local building contractor, Donald E. Lockhart (b.1912 – d.1993).

[32] The sports fields at Cow Roast are regularly used by a number of local amateur football teams,[33] including Maclay FC[34] and Berkhamsted Raiders CFC.

[43] Northchurch Cricket Club is based nearby, at the playing fields on the north side of the A4251, close to the junction between Tring Road and Dudswell Lane.

Cow Roast is situated in South West Hertfordshire, England, straddling the border of the civil parishes of Wigginton and Northchurch,[52] between the towns of Tring and Berkhamsted.