Denton is a Roman villa site in southwest Lincolnshire, near the village of Denton on the limestone uplands close to the Ermine Street corridor. Occupation appears to have spanned the later Roman period, with the principal building phases dating to the fourth century A.D., though earlier activity on or near the site is possible. It seems to have been a modest agricultural establishment typical of the Lincolnshire villa landscape rather than a large aisled or courtyard complex.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The villa sits within a dense cluster of late Roman rural settlements in the Kesteven limestone belt, an area producing grain and likely supplying both the colonia at Lincoln and the wider provincial economy. Like comparable Lincolnshire villas (e.g. Norton Disney, Great Casterton, Sapperton), it reflects the prosperity and investment in rural estates that characterised the region in the fourth century.
Denton is a Roman villa site in southwest Lincolnshire, near the village of Denton on the limestone uplands close to the Ermine Street corridor. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Denton 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.
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