The Kingshill Farm site, on the edge of Cirencester (Roman Corinium Dobunnorum), is a Romano-British villa lying within the densely villa-occupied countryside of the Cotswolds. Like its neighbours, it likely originated as a modest late 1st- or 2nd-century farmstead and developed into a more substantial stone-built villa establishment by the 3rd–4th centuries, the peak period of Cotswold villa prosperity. Its precise plan and chronology are not well published.
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The villa sits in the immediate hinterland of Corinium, the second-largest town in Roman Britain, and would have formed part of the agricultural estate network supplying the civitas capital — a landscape that includes nearby Chedworth, Barnsley Park, and the Whittington/Withington villas. Its proximity to Corinium and the Fosse Way places it within an unusually wealthy and Romanised rural zone.
Investigations at Kingshill (developer-led work associated with housing expansion northeast of Cirencester) have recorded Roman settlement remains, including stone footings, ditches, burials, and finds of pottery, coins, and building debris consistent with a villa or its associated farm buildings. Detailed structural evidence for the main residential range is limited in the published record, and the site is less fully understood than the major excavated Cotswold villas.
The Kingshill Farm site, on the edge of Cirencester (Roman Corinium Dobunnorum), is a Romano-British villa lying within the densely villa-occupied countryside of the Cotswolds. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British villa at Kingshill 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 Cricklade (2.1 km), Roman rural sanctuary on Groundwell Ridge, east of Lady Lane (3.9 km), Roman villa 530m west of Stanton House (6.2 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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