Dalton Parlours, near Collingham in West Yorkshire, was a substantial Romano-British villa occupying a hilltop site previously settled by a Late Iron Age enclosed farmstead. The villa proper developed from the late 2nd century AD, reaching its fullest extent in the 3rd–4th centuries with a winged corridor house, detached bath-house, aisled buildings and ancillary structures, before being abandoned around the end of the 4th century.
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It is one of the most northerly fully developed villas in Roman Britain and the most thoroughly excavated villa in West Yorkshire, demonstrating that Romanised estate agriculture extended into the territory of the Brigantes well beyond the conventional villa belt. Its setting close to the road network serving the legionary fortress at York (Eboracum) suggests it functioned as a productive estate supplying that urban and military market.
Large-scale excavation by the West Yorkshire Archaeology Service in 1976–79 (published by Wrathmell and Nicholson, 1990) revealed the villa plan, a fine polychrome Medusa mosaic from the bath-house, numerous wells, corn-drying ovens, and quantities of pottery, coinage and ironwork indicating mixed arable and pastoral production. The site also produced evidence of the underlying Iron Age roundhouse settlement, allowing the transition from native farmstead to Roman villa to be tra
Dalton Parlours, near Collingham in West Yorkshire, was a substantial Romano-British villa occupying a hilltop site previously settled by a Late Iron Age enclosed farmstead. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Dalton Parlours 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 Dalton Parlours Roman villa and Iron Age settlement (1.6 km), Newton Kyme (5.3 km), Two Roman forts, two Roman camps, vicus, Iron Age enclosure, Bronze Age barrows and Neolithic henge monument west of Newton Kyme (5.4 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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