Tixover is the site of a Romano-British villa on the south bank of the River Welland in Rutland, in the eastern part of the civitas of the Corieltauvi. Like other villas in the Welland valley, it likely developed from a later 1st- or 2nd-century farmstead into a more substantial stone-built establishment in the 3rd–4th centuries, exploiting the fertile valley soils for mixed agriculture.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The villa formed part of a dense scatter of rural estates along the middle Welland and Nene valleys, a region of prosperous Roman farming linked by road and river to the small towns of Great Casterton and Durobrivae (Water Newton) and to the pottery and tile industries of the Lower Nene. Its position reflects the economic integration of the East Midlands countryside rather than any exceptional individual status.
Evidence at Tixover comes principally from surface finds, cropmarks, and limited fieldwork rather than systematic excavation, including building debris, tesserae, and Roman pottery indicating a masonry structure of some pretension. No detailed plan of the villa is published, and its precise extent, layout, and chronology remain poorly defined.
Tixover is the site of a Romano-British villa on the south bank of the River Welland in Rutland, in the eastern part of the civitas of the Corieltauvi. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Tixover 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.
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