More information : [ST 5460 1377] Roman Villa [GS] (site of) (1)
Remains of a Roman Villa were discovered in 1753 in a field called Chesil or Chessels, about 1 1/2 miles south of Yeovil on the east side of the road to East Coker, near a good spring of water. Several rooms were distinguished, and a figured mosaic laid over a hypocaust, and a mosaic of geometrical design were found. The smaller finds included bricks, files, iron objects and burnt bones, but were not properly recorded. In 1818, or 1820 at the same spot or very close to it, further discoveries included foundations, hypocausts, two mosaics (one figured, one geometrical - now in Taunton Museum), painted wall plaster, tiles, potsherds and coins (FAUSTINA to VALENS). (2)
Again in Chessells field, on 23rd May 1919, fragments of tile and several tesserae were picked up on the surface in the proximity of recently unearthed stone walling of herring-bone pattern. (3)
Parch marks visible on A/P's. (4)
No traces of the villa remain in the field which is partly ploughed. (5)
Description of the mosaic found in 1753. (6)
SO 22 Listed as the site of a Roman villa. (7)
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