Yarchester (sometimes Yarchester or Eaton Constantine area, Shropshire) is a Romano-British villa lying in the rural hinterland of Viroconium Cornoviorum (Wroxeter), roughly 8 km to the east of the civitas capital. It was a corridor villa forming part of a wider courtyard complex, occupied by the early 3rd century A.D. and likely continuing into the 4th century, on the pattern of other Cornovian villas in the Severn valley.
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The site is significant as one of a relatively small number of substantial villas known in the territory of the Cornovii, a region historically considered "villa-poor" compared with southern Britain; its presence reinforces the picture of a productive agricultural estate landscape supporting Wroxeter, then one of the largest towns in Roman Britain.
Investigation has been limited, but aerial photography and geophysical/earthwork survey have revealed the corridor range and an arrangement of ancillary buildings around a courtyard, with surface finds of tile, building stone and pottery indicative of a masonry establishment of some pretension. No major modern excavation has been published, and details of internal plan, mosaics, or bath suite remain poorly known for this particular site.
Yarchester (sometimes Yarchester or Eaton Constantine area, Shropshire) is a Romano-British villa lying in the rural hinterland of Viroconium Cornoviorum (Wroxeter), roughly 8 km to the east of the civitas capital. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a villa site from the Roman period in Britain.
Yarchester 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 Roman villa NE of Cottage Coppice (1.1 km), Wroxeter Roman fort (7 km), Abutment of Roman bridge at Radnor Bridge (7.2 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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