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Bignor Roman Villa is a substantial Roman country house situated in West Sussex, England, dating to the second and third centuries AD. The villa represents a significant example of Romano-British domestic architecture and wealth, comprising multiple ranges of buildings arranged around courtyards in a corridor villa plan typical of high-status rural settlements. Excavations have revealed mosaics, hypocausts, and other evidence of considerable investment in both decoration and comfort, indicating the villa served as the residence of a prosperous landowner engaged in agricultural exploitation of the surrounding countryside. The site remains one of the most important archaeological records of Roman elite habitation in southern Britain, preserved as an open-air museum displaying in situ remains of the principal structures.
Bignor Roman Villa, 450m east of Manor Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1005869. View the official record →
Bignor Roman Villa is a substantial Roman country house situated in West Sussex, England, dating to the second and third centuries AD. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1005869.
Bignor Roman Villa, 450m east of Manor Farm is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1005869.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cross dyke 330m north west of Whiteways Lodge (3.9 km), War Dyke entrenchment in Whiteways Plantation and South Wood (4.5 km), Dalesdown Wood earthworks (5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bignor Roman Villa, 450m east of Manor Farm's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Bignor Roman Villa, 450m east of Manor Farm stands on Gault Formation And Upper Greensand Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is mudstone, sandstone and limestone.