More information : (SU 72522357) Roman Villa (R) (Remains of) (NAT)
(SU 72512364) Lead Coffin found AD 1898 (NAT) (1)
Large Villa with baths etc excavated 1907-8 by A Moray Williams. (2-3)
The most interesting of all the basilican houses is at Stroud, near Petersfield. It consists of a rectangle 140ft by 52ft from two corners of which project wings exactly like those of a normal corridor house. The main block had been divided at first merely by two rows of wooden columns, but at a later date a number of rooms had been cut off at its western end as to leave the front aisle doing duty as a corridor. (4)
Concrete posts mark the extremities of the site of the villa which is now turfed over. Some Roman brick and tile is to be found in the adjacent hedges. Published 25" survey revised. (5)
The lead coffin site falls within a long disused gravel pit immediately N of the villa.
No change. (6)
The basilican villa-house at Stroud (plan) faces south. A projecting wing room at the SW angle was extended, probably for an upper storey. At its south-east corner an octagonal building containing a pit may have been a shrine. On the east side of the yard the rectangular outbuilding contained a granary. The aisled house is very large, and may have been a local peasant centre. (7)
Hampshire and the Isle of Wight are notable for the number of aisled buildings, part domestic and part barn, which are best distinguished by the term 'aisled farmhouses', of which Stroud is one. It differs from others in having no dwelling house distinct from the aisled farmhouse. The aisled house here displays evidence of its adaptation from a simple aisled building and for its remodelling to give it the aspect of a corridor villa. (8)
HA 77 A villa which is unusual in that the main villa house is an aisled farmhouse and built with wings. Enclosure wall. (9) |