Cox Green was a modest Romano-British villa situated in the middle Thames valley near Maidenhead, Berkshire, occupied from roughly the late 1st or early 2nd century AD through to the 4th century. It developed from a simple rectangular timber or stone building into a small winged-corridor villa, typical of the lesser rural estates of the region rather than a high-status establishment.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The site reflects the agrarian exploitation of the fertile gravel terraces of the Thames valley, within easy reach of Silchester (Calleva) and the road network linking it to London, and forms part of a dense pattern of small-to-middling villas in this corridor. It is not individually prominent but contributes to understanding the distribution of working farmsteads in a relatively prosperous lowland zone.
Excavations published by Bennett in the 1960s (Berkshire Archaeological Journal) revealed a multi-roomed stone building with evidence of tessellated floors, painted wall plaster, and a hypocaust, along with coins, pottery, and tile indicating a long occupation sequence with later modifications. Finds were consistent with a working farm of modest pretension rather than a luxurious residence, and no substantial bath suite or mosaic of high quality was recorded.
Cox Green was a modest Romano-British villa situated in the middle Thames valley near Maidenhead, Berkshire, occupied from roughly the late 1st or early 2nd century AD through to the 4th century. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Cox Green 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 Weycock Hill (5.1 km), Hurley Priory: A moated Benedictine priory and fishponds and the remains of Ladye Place Mansion (7.6 km), Roman villa at Mill End (11 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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