In the summer of 1990 rescue excavations by the University of Birmingham, funded jointly by Showerings Ltd and English Heritage, revealed over 2 ha. of a Romano-British roadside settlement beside the Fosse Way in Somerset. Located on the outskirts of Shepton Mallet, little more than a postulated settlement locality and a nearby pottery manufacturing site were known previously. As a result of the information presented in this volume, and subsequent research and discoveries, Fosse Lane can now take its place among the better known of the smaller towns and roadside settlements of Roman Britain....