Hucclecote was a Romano-British corridor villa situated on the eastern outskirts of Glevum (Gloucester), occupied from around AD 150 through to the early 5th century. It was a modest but well-appointed rural residence, with a heated bath suite and tessellated/mosaic floors typical of the prosperous villa estates clustered in the Severn Vale and Cotswold fringe.
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The villa lay only c. 3 km east of the colonia at Glevum, on or near the line of Ermin Street, and likely formed part of the agricultural hinterland supplying the town. Its importance lies particularly in the evidence for very late occupation: a coin of Honorius found pressed into a worn mosaic surface is one of the better-known indicators of continued sub-Roman activity at a British villa into the 5th century.
The site was first investigated in 1911 by W. St Clair Baddeley, who recorded the corridor plan, hypocaust, painted wall plaster, and geometric mosaics, including the Honorius coin embedded in repaired flooring. Further excavation in 1993 examined additional structures and refined the chronology, confirming a long occupation sequence from the mid-2nd century into the post-Roman period, though no full modern monograph synthesis has been published.
Hucclecote was a Romano-British corridor villa situated on the eastern outskirts of Glevum (Gloucester), occupied from around AD 150 through to the early 5th century. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
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