More information : [SU 5288 3430] ROMAN VILLA [G.S.] (Site of) (1)
A Roman villa site at Itchen Abbas was excavated in 1878 by the Rev. C. Collier. Five rooms were uncovered, 3 with tessellated pavements [see plan and photos AO/57/71/5-8]. Finds included pottery of about 8 different kinds, 2 coins, one of Constantine, bones, oyster shells, etc (2)(3). Scheduled (4). (2-4)
[Centred at SU 5293 3428] to the S.E. of the villa site part of an oval enclosure is visible as crop and soilmarks on air photographs. Connected with it is a complicated series of ditches, etc. This is presumably an Iron Age settlement site, the predecessor of the villa. (5-7)
The area of the villa site is littered with Roman building debris. In a ploughed field to the S.E. of the copse, within the area of the oval enclosure seen on the air photographs, 19 sherds of pottery were found of which 5 were identified by F. Cottrill, curator of Winchester Museum as Iron Age (prob. 'AB' or 'C'). The enclosure and its associated earthworks have been ploughed out. (8)
[SU 5288 3430] There are no surveyable remains of the villa. The general siting is clear enough from the debris and the open sided barn-like structure erected over the infilled excavation where a mosaic was formerly exposed. (9)
No change. (10)
HA 50 Listed as the site of a Roman villa. (11)
The remains of a prehistoric settlement and Roman villa visible as cropmarks. The earlier settlement includes enclosures, ditches and trackways. Iron Age pottery and a Roman hypocaust system have been found. (12)
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