More information : (SU 17368989) Roman Building (R) site of. (1)
Several pavements of rough stone tesserae, not coloured, were
found and destroyed when the railway was made to the west of
Stanton Fitzwarren. Another pavement was found in the same field
near the lake. (2)
Four hundred yards south of the railway station where a cattle track
runs under the line (SU 17329020) are patches of rough tessellated
pavements with tesserae of large size, roughly one inch square of
dark brown sandstone. Traces of rough foundations can be traced
for about 200 yards. (3)
SU 17359005 Trial excavation of a villa discovered in the 19th c
revealed the caldarium, tapidarium, frigidarium cold plunge and
stokehole of a small bathouse built of coral rag. Constructed
early in the 3rd c the building was demolished c360 AD and the
cold plunge used as a rubbish pit. Occupation of the site
continued to at least the end of the 4th c. Finds from the site
are in Swindon Museum. (4)
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