The Ingleby Barwick villa, on the south bank of the Tees at Quarry Farm/Condercum Green, was a modest Romano-British rural settlement complex occupied from the later 2nd through the 4th century AD. It comprised a small aisled or winged stone building set within a series of ditched enclosures, paddocks and a trackway, representing one of the most northerly known villas in the province — close to the practical limit of villa-style estates in Britain.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The site is significant precisely because of its location: villas are rare north of the Yorkshire Wolds, and Ingleby Barwick demonstrates that Romanised farming establishments, probably supplying the military market on the Tyne–Tees frontier zone, did extend into the lower Tees valley. It suggests a prosperous native or veteran landholder integrated into the wider economy of northern Britannia.
Excavations by Archaeological Services Durham University (notably in the mid-2000s, ahead of housing development) revealed a stone-founded building with a hypocaust and painted wall plaster, surrounded by enclosure ditches, a well, and a cemetery containing several inhumations including a stone cist burial. Finds of pottery, querns, coins and metalwork indicate mixed agricultural activity continuing into the late 4th century, with the published report (Willis & Carne, 2013) remaining the principal source.
The Ingleby Barwick villa, on the south bank of the Tees at Quarry Farm/Condercum Green, was a modest Romano-British rural settlement complex occupied from the later 2nd through the 4th century AD. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British villa, with associated enclosures and other features, at Condercum Green, Ingleby Barwick 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 Roman rural settlement 375m east of Chapel House Farm (15.1 km), Holme House (17.4 km), Piercebridge Roman Bridge (22.1 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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