This is a Romano-British villa site located in north Dorset, approximately 270m west of Park House Farm, in an area of the county that lay within the civitas of the Durotriges. The site is one of numerous rural villas in the Dorset chalkland and clay-vale landscape, most of which flourished between the 2nd and 4th centuries AD, with peak activity and elaboration typically in the later 3rd and 4th centuries. Without specific excavation reports for this particular site, its precise plan and chronology are not securely known to me.
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The villa would have functioned as the centre of an agricultural estate exploiting the mixed downland and vale soils of north Dorset, producing grain and livestock — part of the densely villa'd landscape that supplied surplus to local markets such as Durnovaria (Dorchester) and the wider provincial economy. Dorset villas of this region are notable collectively for their participation in the late Roman flowering of mosaic art associated with the so-called Durnovarian school.
This is a Romano-British villa site located in north Dorset, approximately 270m west of Park House Farm, in an area of the county that lay within the civitas of the Durotriges. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman villa 300yds (270m) W of Park House Farm buildings 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 Hod Hill (3 km), Two Late Iron Age or Romano-British enclosed settlements with part of an associated field system 420m NNW of South Farm (6.9 km), Roman villa on Little Barton Hill (7.2 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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