More information : (SU 23382750) Roman Villa (R) (site of). (1) A corridor type villa with three bath houses and possible centurial stone, south of Lower Highwood Copse (shown as extant foundations on 3) excavated by Heywood Sumner between 1914 and 1924. Objects found now in Salisbury Museum include a silver spoon, bronze ornaments, iron stylus and fragments of glass vessels. Pottery includes Samian and imitation Samian, New Forest ware (3rd and 4th C) red rosette stamped ware (late 4th C) and coarse pottery. The 59 coins found range from Gallienus to Valentinian I, only seven being 4th C. (2-3) Though the area in which the villa stood is at present ploughed there is nothing apart from an odd fragment of pottery to indicate the site. (4) Romano-British aisled house (see plan). (5)
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