The Castle Hill Roman villa has been described as "the largest and most sophisticated villa complex known in Suffolk".
Under what is now housing in Tranmere Grove and Chesterfield Drive in the old village of Whitton (now a suburb of Ipswich) lies the remains of a Roman villa. It was first excavated in 1931. It was excavated again in 1949 by the archaeologist Basil Brown before residential building started. Coins were found along with a mosaic floor which is on display in Ipswich Museum.
It featured on Channel 4's archaeological television programme Time Team in 2004. The dig helped provide more evidence to supplement that gathered in the 1949 dig.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The Castle Hill Roman villa has been described as "the largest and most sophisticated villa complex known in Suffolk". Under what is now housing in Tranmere Grove and Chesterfield Drive in the old village of Whitton (now a suburb of Ipswich) lies the remains of a Roman villa. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Castle Hill, Whitton 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 Combretovium (7.2 km), Baylham Roman site (7.5 km), Windmill Hill (10.9 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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