More information : [SP 5889 6320] Roman Villa [G.S.] (Site of) (1)
A villa site excavated 1823 and 1852. Main range of buildings
running N. & S., with baths at S. end. Tesselated pavements, well
preserved hypocausts, painted wall plaster, windowglass, Samian,
Castor and other Pottery; coin of Constantine ("Ro. coins
frequently found here") and many small finds. Well to S.W. [See
Plan AO:60:329:5]
Botfield's finds' are in the British Museum, the Northampton
Museum and in private possession. (2-3)
There are no visible remains of this building. The site now falls on a golf course. Northampton Museum hold a large representative collection of the excavated finds. (4)
This building, 70ft wide and 145ft long, was considered by
Haverfield to be part of a villa. As evidence he cites the
character of the plan and the existence of unexcavated
foundations branching off in a westerly direction. Finds,
additional to those listed above, include two mosaics, one now in
Northampton Museum, pewter and iron articles, including keys,
glass vessels and fragments of local marble. Moore also lists
roof tiles and pieces of coal. He concludes from the finds that
the building was of a substantial nature. (5-6)
Saxon burial (SP 58896320) found in one of the rooms of the Roman
villa by Botfield in 1852. A skeleton, lying N-S with a small
spearhead at its side, was discovered within one of the rooms of the
bath block. The spearhead may be one of those illustrated by Edgar.
(7)
Listed in gazetteer of Roman villas. (9) |