More information : "In 1853 R.C Neville excavated 'in a field on Mr Cornell's farm on the west side of the old road running up to Chapel Green' ... he found much pottery and animal bones amid abundant traces of fire and ash, also roof tiles, a perfect bronze armlet and a finger ring with a glass intaglio figuring a mask ... a 'sort of chamber', apparently of rounded shape, had been cut five feet deep in the chalk ..... having two compartments ..... but this was probably two intersecting pits ..." Coins found included Tetricus, Carausuis and probably of Constantine.
In the British Museum are:
A bronze finger ring found at Chapel Green in 1853 (BM AF 439).
A second found near Chapel Green Road in 1859 (BM AF 449).
(No other reference to the above site could be found yet Neville reported his finds regularly in the Archaeological Journal. This may be the initial report in the Braybrooke Diaries, of the nearby Roman Villa at TL 50753607. The siting information, the bronze armlet and finger ring with glass intaglio all suggest this).
Nothing visible on air photographs. (1,2)
Essex County Arch Unit confirm this to be a duplication recording of the villa (TL 5036). Not investigated. (3)
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