[7] East of the River Purwell there is an agricultural landscape extending towards Graveley, where a Roman road leads towards Baldock.
[8] The landscape we see today has been affected by enclosure in the 19th century and other relatively recent changes, but Seebohm, who lived in Hitchin, was able to study maps of the fields as they were in medieval times.
[10] The landowners at Wymondley may have been descendants of the pre-Roman British warrior aristocracy, because at some places the Romans returned the land to its original inhabitants.
On the evidence of the continuity in field boundaries, the Anglo-Saxon settlement did not make a big change in the way the land was managed.
[2] These features indicate activity, probably in the post-Roman period, by people who had no use for the luxurious installations such as heating by hypocaust and mosaic flooring.
[14] On the evidence of coins found at the site, the building complex may have been established shortly after 200 with occupation continuing until the 4th century.