Samuel Lysons excavated a Roman villa at Frampton (Dorset) in 1796. Its unusual mosaics were a subject of keen interest, even attracting the attention of George III. The villa was thought to have been demolished, but Bournemouth University demonst...
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Samuel Lysons excavated a Roman villa at Frampton (Dorset) in 1796. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Frampton 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 Frampton Roman villa (1.1 km), Multi-period landscape including an Iron Age or Romano British settlement, part of an associated field system, six bowl barrows and an enclosure 600m south east of Langford Farm (2 km), Part of a Later Iron Age or Romano-British settlement 590m north west of Compton Barn (4.8 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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