This Romano-British villa lies on the lower slopes south-west of Winchcombe in the north Cotswolds, within a landscape densely occupied by villa estates between the 2nd and 4th centuries AD. Like its neighbours at Spoonley Wood, Wadfield and Wancote, it would have functioned as the residential and agricultural centre of a working estate, most likely exploiting the fertile soils of the Isbourne valley for mixed farming including sheep and grain.
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The site forms part of the exceptionally rich villa belt around Winchcombe and Sudeley, an area whose density of high-status rural settlement reflects the prosperity of the Dobunnic civitas and proximity to the major market and religious centre at Bath/Cirencester. It contributes to evidence for intensive estate-based agriculture supplying these regional centres in the later Roman period.
Little has been published about this specific site, which is known largely from surface finds and possibly geophysical or aerial indications rather than full excavation; building stone, tile, tesserae and Romano-British pottery have typically been recovered from such sites in the vicinity. No detailed plan, mosaic record or dated stratigraphic sequence is available to me for this particular villa.
This Romano-British villa lies on the lower slopes south-west of Winchcombe in the north Cotswolds, within a landscape densely occupied by villa estates between the 2nd and 4th centuries AD. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British villa 170m south west of Winchcombe School, Greet Road 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 Milhampost Roman site (2.1 km), Wadfield Roman villa (3.3 km), Spoonley (4.3 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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