The Barton-in-Fabis villa at Glebe Farm was a winged-corridor villa situated on the south bank of the River Trent, southwest of Nottingham, occupied from the 1st through the 4th centuries AD. Its long occupation suggests development from a modest early Roman farmstead into a more architecturally elaborate residence, typical of the gradual aggrandisement seen at villas across the East Midlands.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The site sits within a productive agricultural landscape on the Trent gravels, an area densely settled in the Roman period and well-connected via the Fosse Way and the river itself, suggesting the villa functioned as the centre of a working agricultural estate supplying both local markets and possibly the legionary and urban demand at Lincoln and Leicester. Its winged-corridor plan places it within the standard repertoire of middling Romano-British villas in the region, comparable to sites such as Mansfield Woodhouse and Southwell.
The villa has been known since antiquarian observations and has produced building debris, tesserae, and pottery indicating some level of domestic refinement, though no large-scale modern excavation has been published and the plan is largely reconstructed from cropmark and earlier records. Specific detail on internal layout, outbuildings, and economic evidence (kilns, corn-driers, agricultural processing) remains limited in the published record.
The Barton-in-Fabis villa at Glebe Farm was a winged-corridor villa situated on the south bank of the River Trent, southwest of Nottingham, occupied from the 1st through the 4th centuries AD. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Barton-in-Fabis is classified as a Roman villa — a civilian site in the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer. Roman Britain's archaeology encompasses thousands of sites ranging from legionary fortresses and marching camps to villas, temples and towns.
Several Roman sites lie within a short distance, including Romano-British nucleated enclosed settlement and Roman villa complex at Glebe Farm (0.5 km), Roman site on Red Hill (3.8 km), Red Hill Roman Temple (4 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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