Site of a Roman villa excavated in 1887-8. The site was an enclosed courtyard, with a main house, hypocaust, and baths, as well as an aisled farmhouse.
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Site of a Roman villa excavated in 1887-8. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Tockington 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 Hillfort and associated Romano-British occupation at Little Abbey, Alveston (4.8 km), Minor Romano-British villa 300m north west of Tapwell Bridge (8.3 km), Blaise Castle, Iron Age hillfort, Roman and medieval remains, and post-medieval garden (9.5 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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