| Summary : Site of a Roman courtyard villa. A piece of mosaic pavement was found in 1749, and the area has produced Roman burials, coins, pottery and glass. Some of the burials may have come from 'a vault about 3 yards square paved with bricks about 9" square', containing burial urns and bones, found about 1780. Building foundations have been observed in drainage ditches. The site of the villa is indicated by a surface scatter of building debris. |
More information : Foundations associated with Roman remains have,- been observed by the farmer in Stickling or Stitch Field centred TL 65041425 (a). A piece of mosaic pavement was found in 1749, and the area has produced Roman burials, coins, pottery and glass. Some of the burials may have come from 'a vault about 3 yards square paved with bricks about 9" square', containing burial urns and bones, found about 1780. Some of the finds are in Chelmsford Museum. (1)
Foundations associated with Roman remains have been observed whilst digging drainage ditches in the south part of the field to the west of Stitchlands. (2)
Lines of gravel in plough, which could be interpreted as wall foundations, were observed by H. J. M. Green at TL 65101431. (3)
A scatter of Roman occupation debris approximately 100.0m square associated with an established roman building (?villa) centred at TL 65101435. No traces of foundations were seen and no further finds have been made by the farmer. Centre of scatter surveyed at 1:2500. (4)
Listed as a villa. (5)
Scheduled listing. (6)
Corpus of Roman finds from the area of Plesheybury Farm (TL 657142) described. (7)
Plesheybury. A scatter of fragmentary building material and pottery has been noted here but a `sounding' trench revealed nothing. Deep-ploughing now makes the survival of any structural remains unlikely. (8)
Considered by English Heritage to survive in good condition below the ploughsoil. (9)
ES 57 Listed as the possible site of a large courtyard villa. (10) |