The Roman villa north of Hamilton Grounds Farm lies in the rural hinterland of Leicester (Ratae Corieltauvorum), in an area of east Leicestershire that has produced a notable concentration of Romano-British rural settlements. Like comparable villas in the territory of the Corieltauvi, it most likely originated as a modest farmstead in the later 1st or 2nd century AD and developed into a more substantial stone-footed structure in the 3rd–4th centuries, though precise phasing at this site is not established.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The villa formed part of the agricultural economy supplying Ratae, situated within easy reach of the civitas capital and the Fosse Way corridor; its existence contributes to the picture of dispersed, middling rural estates in the East Midlands rather than the grand aisled or courtyard villas seen further south.
The Roman villa north of Hamilton Grounds Farm lies in the rural hinterland of Leicester (Ratae Corieltauvorum), in an area of east Leicestershire that has produced a notable concentration of Romano-British rural settlements. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman villa N of Hamilton Grounds Farm 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 The 'Roman' bridge, Belgrave (5.5 km), Leicester abbey and 17th century mansion and ornamental gardens (6.4 km), Ratae (6.7 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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