| Summary : Site of a Romano-British building, possibly a villa, at Kingshill Farm. Excavations have occurred in 1952 and 1987. Foundations and a channelled hypocaust have been uncovered, and finds include daub, tiles, nails, pottery and coins. Some finds from the site are in Cricklade Museum. Scheduled as a Roman villa. |
More information : (SU 11729259) Roman Buildings (R) (Site of) (1)
Foundations of a Roman building, including a channelled hypocaust and stoke-hole, have been discovered by Mr Freeth, at Kingshill Farm, immediately to the south of a Dutch barn, in the angle formed by the barn and his new house. Investigation revealed pieces of daub, tiles, iron nails, bronze ligula, part of a rotary quern, hone or whetstone, pot of grey-black ware, a few sherds of Samian, grey ware with lattice decoration, one AE 3, Constantine II, and one AE 4th c barbarous imitation of a coin of Valentinian I. (2)
Callender and Thomas (3) who examined the site in 1952 concluded that the building had formed a late 3rd or 4th c addition to an existing Romano-British farmhouse. Finds from the site are in Cricklade Museum. (2-3)
Mr Freeth confirmed the OS siting. There is nothing to be seen on the ground. (4)
WZ 66 Listed as the possible site of a Roman villa. (5)
Scheduled as a Roman villa. (6) |