Whitton Lodge, located on the Vale of Glamorgan in southern Wales, is a small native-tradition farmstead that evolved from a Late Iron Age enclosed settlement into a Romanised villa. Occupation spans roughly the 1st century BC through to the 4th century AD, with the site transitioning from timber roundhouses within a ditched enclosure to rectilinear masonry buildings during the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD.
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The site is significant as an example of indigenous Silurian settlement continuity through the Roman conquest, lying within the hinterland of the civitas capital at Venta Silurum (Caerwent) and reflecting the gradual, modest Romanisation typical of the rural Vale of Glamorgan. It illustrates how local elites adopted Roman material culture and building forms without wholesale displacement of pre-existing settlement patterns.
The site is known primarily from cropmarks identified through aerial photography, showing a sub-rectangular enclosure with internal features; there is no upstanding fabric. I am not aware of substantial published excavation at Whitton Lodge itself — it should not be confused with the well-excavated Whitton villa near Llancarfan (Jarrett and Wrathmell 1981), though the two sites are comparable in form and likely development.
Whitton Lodge, located on the Vale of Glamorgan in southern Wales, is a small native-tradition farmstead that evolved from a Late Iron Age enclosed settlement into a Romanised villa. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Whitton Lodge Roman Villa 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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