Lodge Farm Roman villa, situated near North Warnborough on the gravels of the upper Whitewater valley in north-east Hampshire, was a modest rural villa established in the mid-3rd century and occupied into the late 4th century CE. Its most prominent feature was a detached bathhouse of some substance, suggesting a household of moderate wealth rather than an elite establishment on the scale of nearby Sparsholt or Bramdean.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The villa sits within a dense cluster of Romano-British rural settlements in north Hampshire, lying within the agricultural hinterland of Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester) some 15 km to the north, and likely functioned as a working agricultural estate supplying the civitas capital and its markets.
The site is known principally from antiquarian and partial modern investigation, which identified building footings, hypocaust elements, and tile and pottery scatters consistent with a bath suite and main range; full plans of the domestic buildings have not been published, and the site has not been comprehensively excavated to modern standards.
Lodge Farm Roman villa, situated near North Warnborough on the gravels of the upper Whitewater valley in north-east Hampshire, was a modest rural villa established in the mid-3rd century and occupied into the late 4th century CE. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Lodge Farm Roman villa 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 Cuckoo's Corner Roman site, Neatham (11.3 km), Cuckoo's Corner Roman settlement, Neatham (11.6 km), Farnham (12.1 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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