More information : (Centred at SU 46284292) Tidbury Ring (Camp) (NR)
Roman Remains found here (NAT) (1)
A univallate plateau hill-fort with entrance on the SE.
"a place called Titbury Hill wherein have been found some signs of wells; and about it the husbandmen have ploughed up and dug square stones and Roman Coins."
Roman building material and two coins of Constantine (306-337 A.D.) found.
Two Roman buildings are visible within the hill-fort. Each is about one hundred feet long; they seem to be a barn-house with a separate domestic wing. (2-5)
'A' - SU 46334293 - Rectangular building, c.39 by 13m lying NW - SE with internal divisions at its northwest end.
'B' - SU 46274292 - Rectangular building, slightly smaller than 'A'.
The orientation of these two buildings (at right angles to each other) and possible traces of connecting walls, suggest a courtyard villa complex, similar to that at Clanville - SU 34 NW 1. (6)
Mutilated univallate hill-fort. The two buildings are marked the ground by a dense scatter of building debris and the whole area is littered with 'potboilers.' A single Samian sherd was found at `A'. (7)
(Centred SU 46274292) Tidbury Ring (NAT) Camp (NR)
(SU 46274292 and SU 46334293) ROMAN BUILDINGS (R) (sites of) (NAT) (8)
OS 25" revised. The interior of the work was under pasture and no trace of the buildings was seen. (9)
The larger of the two rectangular buildings seen as cropmarks at Tidbury is an example of the Roman aisled house. Here the two lines of post-bases dividing nave and aisles can actually be seen. It is probable that the hill-fort had been abandoned when the villa was established. Another possibility is that the buildings are a temple-complex. (Not mentioned in Lewis's 'Roman Temples'). (10)
SU 463 429. Tidbury Ring. Listed in gazetteer as a univallate hillfort covering 4.8ha. (11)
HA 25 Possible 4th century AD courtyard villa. Two Roman buildings are visible within the hillfort here. Each is c33m long. They seem to be an aisled farmhouse and a separate main villa house. (12)
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