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# Upper Hayes Roman Villa
Upper Hayes Roman Villa is a scheduled monument located in Somerset, England, and is protected by Historic England under reference 1007002. The villa occupies 0.69 hectares on bedrock of the Great Oolite Group, a Bathonian-age formation of sandstone, limestone and argillaceous rocks that would have been locally quarried for building material. The geology of the site made it suitable both for construction and for the agricultural economy that underpinned Romano-British rural settlement.
Roman villas in Somerset represent the homes of prosperous landowners who integrated into Romano-British society during the occupation period. The Villa's location in the south-western region of the province placed it within an economically active landscape of farming estates and trading networks. The underlying limestone bedrock of the Great Oolite Group provided ready access to quality stone for the villa's construction.
As a scheduled monument, Upper Hayes Roman Villa is recognised for its archaeological significance and potential to reveal further information about Roman settlement patterns, domestic architecture and the agricultural economy of the region. The protection afforded by scheduling ensures that the site's archaeological resource is safeguarded for future study and preservation.
Roman villa at Upper Hayes is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007002. View the official record →
# Upper Hayes Roman Villa Upper Hayes Roman Villa is a scheduled monument located in Somerset, England, and is protected by Historic England under reference 1007002.
Roman villa at Upper Hayes 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 1007002.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Camerton Romano-British town and associated Prehistoric and early medieval monuments (4.4 km), Dovecote 220m north of St Philip and St James's Church (4.8 km), Roman villa NW of Port Way (6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Roman villa at Upper Hayes'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 Upper Hayes stands on Great Oolite Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, limestone and argillaceous rocks.