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Romano-British villa at Kingshill Farm

England
List entry 1018434
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1018434
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.04 hectares
Grid reference
SU 11694 92577
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Kingshill Farm is a Romano-British villa situated in Wiltshire, England, dating to the Roman occupation period. The site represents a substantial agricultural and residential establishment typical of the villa economy that characterised Romano-British rural settlement from the first to fourth centuries AD. Archaeological investigation and surface evidence indicate the presence of stone foundations and building remains consistent with a high-status domestic and working complex. The villa would have functioned as a centre of agricultural production and estate management within the wider Roman provincial landscape of Britain.

Romano-British villa at Kingshill Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018434. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Romano-British villa at Kingshill Farm?

Kingshill Farm is a Romano-British villa situated in Wiltshire, England, dating to the Roman occupation period. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018434.

Who is responsible for protecting Romano-British villa at Kingshill Farm?

Romano-British villa at Kingshill 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 1018434.

What other scheduled monuments are near Romano-British villa at Kingshill Farm?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Roman rural sanctuary on Groundwell Ridge, east of Lady Lane (3.9 km), Earthwork on Paven Hill (5.7 km), Medieval cross in St Mary's churchyard (5.8 km).

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Overview
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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Roman rural sanctuary on Groundwell Ridge, east of Lady Lane
3.9 km
Earthwork on Paven Hill
5.7 km
Medieval cross in St Mary's churchyard
5.8 km
Roman villa 530m west of Stanton House
6.2 km
Bury Hill hillfort
6.4 km
Ringsbury Camp hillfort
7.1 km
Roman pottery 140m SSW of Tewkesbury Cross
8.3 km
Bowl barrow 210m north east of Rushy Platt Farm
9.1 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Romano-British villa at Kingshill Farm

Romano-British villa at Kingshill Farm stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.

The wider landscape

Around Romano-British villa at Kingshill Farm

CirencesterRoman town · ~8 milesAveburyArchaeological site · ~14.1 milesSilbury HillArchaeological site · ~15 milesMildenhallRoman town · ~15.6 milesBattle of Roundway Down 1643Battle (1643) · ~18.2 milesBattle of Stow (-on-the-Wold) 1646Battle (1646) · ~22.6 miles
Domesday entry for Calcutt, Wiltshire →
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