Long Itchington lies in the Feldon region of southern Warwickshire, in the hinterland between the small towns of Tripontium (Cave's Inn) and Alcester (Alauna), within an agricultural landscape served by the Fosse Way a few kilometres to the east. The villa here appears to have been a modest rural establishment of the kind common in the Warwickshire Avon valley, likely occupied between the 2nd and 4th centuries AD, exploiting the productive clay and lias soils of the area.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The site forms part of a scatter of villas and farmsteads in south Warwickshire that supplied agricultural produce — chiefly cereals and livestock — to nearby small towns and to the wider provincial market. It is one node in a relatively dense pattern of Romano-British rural settlement clustered along and between the major roads of the Midlands.
Specific excavated evidence from the Long Itchington villa is limited in published form; the site is recorded principally through surface finds, including building material (tile, tesserae) and Roman pottery, with cropmark or geophysical indications of associated enclosures. No detailed plan of the building range has been published, and its full extent and chronology remain poorly defined.
Long Itchington lies in the Feldon region of southern Warwickshire, in the hinterland between the small towns of Tripontium (Cave's Inn) and Alcester (Alauna), within an agricultural landscape served by the Fosse Way a few kilometres to the east. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Long Itchington 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 Radford Semele (7 km), Chesterton-on-Fosse (9.2 km), Roman villa and medieval settlement remains immediately north of Ewefields Farm (9.4 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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