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MONUMENT NO. 362062

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Excavations have uncovered the site of a Roman villa with a bath building, barn and tile kiln dating from 2nd to 4th century AD.

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TL 144012: A Roman building was discovered in 1940 W of Netherwylde Farm, Colney Street, on rising ground immediately S of the R.Colne and 400 yards E of its confluence with the R.Ver. Partly excavated 1941 by Dr Norman Davey who found inter alia an updraught kiln and a hypocaust. Since 1960 the site has been systematically excavated by the Watford and S.W Herts Archaeol Soc under the direction of B Rawlins. A bath building a barn, a tile-kiln and a corridor connecting the bath building to the villa have all been excavated, but the villa proper has yet to be discovered. Finds (stored at Verulamium Museum) date the complex to the C2nd-4th. (1-5)

Most of the area of this complex is arable and shows a slight scatter of building material. Concentrations occur at TL 14160101 - 'B', and 14350110- 'C'; and at TL 14170112- 'D' a very heavy concentration of briquetage, brick and tile indicates the site of the kiln. Mr Hedges the farmer indicated the site of the bathhouse and the barn to Mr Aldsworth in 1966 (bathhouse TL 14380123-'A'; barn TL 14220086-'E'). Nothing was visible then and or now. (6)

Bath-house at `A' - TL 14390116; Corridor at 'B', TL 14320112, Bath Wing and Well at 'C' 14270106; Tile Kiln at 'D' TL 1417116 and Barn at `E' TL 14320101. Sites plotted from Plan. See Illustrations card. (7)

TL 142011. Roman remains south of Hamsteads House - Scheduled: Herts 79. (8)

Additional reference. (9)

HT 5 Listed as the site of a Roman villa. (10)

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( 1) Society for Promotion of Roman Studies The journal of Roman studies

(P. Corder) 32, 1942 Page(s)112

( 2) Watford and South West Herts Archaeological Society half yearly bulletin

16, 1960 Page(s)1-3

( 3) General reference

Watford and South West Herts Archaeological Society News Sheet 2, 1965 Page(s)3

( 4) General reference

Watford and South West Herts Archaeological Society News Sheet 3, 1966 Page(s)6-8

( 5) General reference

Watford and South West Herts Archaeological Society News Sheet 5, 1967 Page(s)2

( 6) Field Investigators Comments

F1 CFW 14-MAR-68

( 7) General reference

1/2500 Plan produced by B.F. Rawlings.

( 8) General reference

DOE (IAM) List Ancient Monuments 3 1978 Page(s)51

( 9) Vivien G Swan 1984 The pottery kilns of Roman Britain

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, England : supplementary series1 - 10 (1980-1985) 5 Page(s)355

(10) by Eleanor Scott 1993 A gazetteer of Roman villas in Britain

Leicester archaeology monographsNo.1 (1993) - no.1 Page(s)91

(11) by Pat Morris 1979 Agricultural buildings in Roman Britain

British Archaeological Report (BAR) British series1 (1974) - 70 Page(s)136

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