A group of four Roman buildings that includes a bathhouse with a hypocaust was discovered in 1957 and 1958. These remains indicated the presence of a Roman-style villa. The remains date from the second to fourth centuries A.D.
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A group of four Roman buildings that includes a bathhouse with a hypocaust was discovered in 1957 and 1958. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Stantonbury 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 Bancroft Roman villa (2.1 km), Wolverton iron trunk aqueduct (4.5 km), Roman villa SE of Cosgrove Hall (5.2 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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