The remains south of Westland Road represent a Romano-British civilian settlement active broadly from the 2nd to 4th centuries AD, lying within the rich agricultural hinterland of south Somerset. It appears to have been a small rural settlement or farmstead complex rather than a villa proper, though it sits within a landscape that included the substantial Westland Roman villa (excavated in the 1920s) and the nearby Lufton villa with its famous octagonal bath-house.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The site forms part of the dense pattern of late Roman rural settlement in the Yeovil/Ilchester area, exploiting fertile land near Lindinis (Ilchester), the regional civitas centre, and reflecting the prosperity of south Somerset's villa economy in the 3rd–4th centuries. Such ancillary settlements likely housed agricultural workers or tenants tied to the surrounding estates.
Investigations in the Westland area have produced Roman building debris, pottery, coins, and evidence of structures, with the Westland villa itself yielding mosaics and hypocaust remains when discovered during aerodrome construction; however, the specific settlement traces immediately
The remains south of Westland Road represent a Romano-British civilian settlement active broadly from the 2nd to 4th centuries AD, lying within the rich agricultural hinterland of south Somerset. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman settlement remains immediately south of Westland Road is classified as a Roman settlement — 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 Yeovil (1.1 km), Roman villa N of Dunnock's Lane (2 km), West Coker (2.7 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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