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Clearwell Farm Roman Villa is a scheduled monument situated in Gloucestershire at grid reference SO5731208520, occupying a protected area of 3.07 hectares under Historic England's guardianship (reference 1406971). The villa stands upon bedrock composed of Dinantian limestone interspersed with sandstone and argillaceous rocks, geological formations that shaped both the landscape and the available building materials during the Roman occupation of Britain. This solid limestone foundation would have provided excellent drainage for the villa's construction and offered practical resources for its development.
The site represents a substantial rural residence from the Romano-British period, when prosperous landowners established villas across the English countryside. The villa's location in the Gloucestershire landscape reflects the agricultural wealth of the region, with the underlying geology supporting both settlement and the limestone quarrying that often accompanied Romano-British development. The monument's scheduled status recognises its archaeological significance and ensures protection of its buried structural remains and the archaeological record they contain.
Today the villa survives as an archaeological site within the Gloucestershire countryside, its position marked by subtle earthworks and subsurface deposits. The scheduled monument designation preserves this historically important site for future study and protects the archaeological evidence that continues to document Romano-British rural life and settlement patterns in the West Midlands region.
Roman Villa at Clearwell Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1406971. View the official record →
Clearwell Farm Roman Villa is a scheduled monument situated in Gloucestershire at grid reference SO5731208520, occupying a protected area of 3.07 hectares under Historic England's guardianship (reference 1406971).
Roman Villa at Clearwell 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 1406971.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Offa's Dyke: section in Passage Grove, 660m west of Sheepcot (9.4 km), The socket stone and part of the shaft of a churchyard cross in St Andrew's churchyard (9.4 km), Tintern Abbey (9.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Roman Villa at Clearwell 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.
Roman Villa at Clearwell Farm stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.