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Ford Farm Roman Villa is a Romano-British villa site located in Wales and protected as a scheduled monument by Cadw under reference MM298. The villa lies upon Triassic bedrock of undifferentiated mudstone, siltstone and sandstone, geology that has shaped both the building materials available to its Roman occupants and the site's preservation conditions.
Roman villas of this period typically served as the residential and agricultural centres of substantial estates, often built by wealthy Romano-British landowners or officials. The Triassic substrate beneath Ford Farm would have provided local stone for construction, whilst the surrounding landscape offered opportunities for mixed farming that characterised villa economy in Romano-British Wales.
The site's survival and protection reflect the importance of understanding Roman settlement patterns in Wales, where villas are less numerous than in southern England. Ford Farm contributes to the wider archaeological record of how Roman culture was adopted and adapted by provincial communities, and how the Romano-British economy functioned in the Welsh upland and border regions during the first few centuries AD.
Ford Farm Roman Villa is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference MM298. View the official record →
Ford Farm Roman Villa is a Romano-British villa site located in Wales and protected as a scheduled monument by Cadw under reference MM298.
Ford Farm Roman Villa dates from the roman period, and is classified as a villa. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Ford Farm Roman Villa is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is MM298.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including St. Mary's Churchyard Cross, Llanwern (2.2 km), Wilcrick Hill Camp (3.2 km), Moated Site E of Grangefield Farm (4.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Ford Farm Roman Villa'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.
Ford Farm Roman Villa stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.