Dalton Parlours Roman villa is a Roman villa and scheduled monument near Collingham, West Yorkshire.
The site was discovered in 1854 on land owned by the Lady Elizabeth Hastings Charities and excavated by F Carroll in 1855. These initial excavations located two buildings with hypocausts and the Medusa mosaic. A rescue excavation in 1977 excavated 3.5 acres (1.4 ha) of the site. The modern excavations discovered an Iron Age site beneath the Roman villa. The villa was constructed in the 3rd-century AD, though some evidence suggests 2nd-century activity at the site as well. Coins on the site date from AD 270–355. In the post-Roman period, several Anglo-Saxon buildings were built on the site (re-using the Roman building materials). A grave dating to the 7th-century AD was also found.
There were several villa buildings built in a sequence at the site. The main site measures 30 m x 16 m and was aligned east to west. It comprised three rooms joined by a corridor. The eastern rooms had a hypocaust and the western room contained the Medusa mosaic. There was a separate bath-house located to the south of the main building. Several other buildings were present on the site.
The large mosaic depicting the Medusa was transferred to the Yorkshire Museum, where it was on display by 1881 in the Hospitium. The mosaic is currently on display in the museum, where it is affixed to a wall next to a staircase.
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Dalton Parlours Roman villa is a Roman villa and scheduled monument near Collingham, West Yorkshire. The site was discovered in 1854 on land owned by the Lady Elizabeth Hastings Charities and excavated by F Carroll in 1855. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Dalton Parlours Roman villa and Iron Age settlement 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 (1.6 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), 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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