| Summary : A Roman villa site and adjacent boundary ditched enclosure system is visible as cropmark on aerial photographs. Located in a field corner NW of Vicarage Farm, the villa is a rectangular pale cropmark about 23 x 11.5 metres, internally subdivided into at least 9 rectangular or subrectangular enclosures or rooms. To the SW are a series of fragmentary but interconnected ditched enclosures that may be field boundaries that extend over an area about 4 metres SW-NE and 103 metres NW-SE. A surface scatter of tesserae, masonry, painted plaster, samian, flue and roof tile. |
More information : Site of Roman Villa found by St Joseph using aerial
photography at 901649 in Wollaston parish. It consists of a range
of rooms with a parallel corridor running between two larger rooms,
which project slightly forwards at either end of the range. (1-2)
SP 901649 Cropmark of a villa. In the field several sherds, mainly
of 4C date, a scatter of limestone and tufa, roof tiles, some of
stone, painted wall plaster, red and white tesserae, Kiln waste,
coins of Severus Alexander, Tetricus I, and two other late coins,
an iron lock and a small bronze bell all found since 1959 and
now in Northampton museum.
APs indicate this villa to be situated at SP 90096499. No excavation
has taken place. Perambulation revealed 3c./4c. sherds, oyster shell,
plaster and Ro brick fragments. All material was left on the site. (3-4)
Roman Villa and Enclosures (SP 901650), in the N.W. of the parish, on
clay and alluvium at 43m. above OD. Air photographs show a small
corridor villa with most of the internal walls still visible.
Immediately to the S.E. a series of circular structures is also
visible, while to the S.W. (at SP 900649) an extremely complex area
of enclosures and other features can be seen. A leaf-shaped
arrowhead (NM) has been found in the field to the S. (5)
Listed in gazetteer of Roman villas (6).
A Roman villa site and adjacent boundary ditched enclosure system is visible as cropmark on aerial photographs and was mapped as part of the Bedford Borough NMP project. Located in a field corner about 578 metres NW of Vicarage Farm and centred at SP 90073 64990, the villa is a rectangular pale cropmark about 23 x 11.5 metres, internally subdivided into at least 9 rectangular or subrectangular enclosures or rooms. Centred about 85 metres to the SW are a series of fragmentary but interconnected ditched enclosures that may be field boundaries or boundary ditches that extend over an area about 4 metres SW-NE and 103 metres NW-SE. (7-8) |