Beaconsfield Farm Roman villa lies in the Cotswold fringe of north Oxfordshire/south Warwickshire, an area densely populated with rural Roman estates between the late 1st and 4th centuries AD. The site appears to represent a modest villa or villa-associated farmstead, likely developing from an earlier Iron Age/early Roman enclosure into a stone-founded building during the later Roman period, in the manner typical of the region.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Like other villas in this part of the Dobunni/Catuvellauni borderland, it would have formed part of the agricultural hinterland supplying nearby towns such as Alchester and the wider Cotswold market network, contributing to the cereal- and wool-based rural economy that made this one of the wealthier landscapes of Roman Britain. There is no indication it was a high-status establishment comparable to North Leigh or Chedworth.
Beaconsfield Farm Roman villa lies in the Cotswold fringe of north Oxfordshire/south Warwickshire, an area densely populated with rural Roman estates between the late 1st and 4th centuries AD. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Beaconsfield Farm Roman villa 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 Great Tew (2.1 km), Wigginton Roman villa and Iron Age enclosure, 300m north east of the Church of St Giles (6.1 km), Ditchley (6.4 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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