There are remains of a Roman villa at Windmill Hill. Artifact evidence indicates human activity from the second century until the late fourth century CE. The site was also likely occupied earlier in the Iron Age.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
There are remains of a Roman villa at Windmill Hill. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Windmill Hill is classified as a Roman settlement — 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 Castle Hill, Whitton (10.9 km), Combretovium (14.9 km), Baylham Roman site (15 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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