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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… monument in the parish is the recently discovered Roman villa, with a fine quality mosaic pavement including a … it all appears to have lain within the existing fields. Roman and Prehistoric (20) Roman Villa (78451602), on the edge of the present village …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… This place is supposed to have been the site of a Roman station, and considerable vestiges of ancient buildings … amphitheatre: in turning up the soil in various places Roman pottery has been found, from the coarsest kind to the … with iron, glass, and scori of iron; and the line of a Roman road may still be distinctly traced. A Carthusian …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… the valley sides Northampton Sand and clays are exposed. Roman b(1) Roman Settlement (?) (SP 569370), E. of the village on limestone at 125 m. above OD. Roman pottery was found here before 1978. A bronze axe is …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… where several parishes met and several tracks joined the Roman road, a place called Scott Poor in 1773, 33 later …
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… the settlement there, and probably connected the area with Roman Corinium, later Cirencester. 5 The village was linked … in status with nearby oppida, continued into the Roman period, was reconstructed c. 300, and did not fall out … features, although undated, are of probable prehistoric or Roman date. 6 All are not necessarily contemporary, and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… with Widhill (in Cricklade until 1934) was marked by a Roman road, Ermin Street, and part of that with Broad Blunsdon was marked by a track, also probably of Roman origin. 5 The long eastern boundary between Water Eaton … on the clay land. 8 Communications Roads Ermin Street, the Roman road which marked the south-west parish boundary, led …
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… Churn runs as two straight lines, one of which follows a Roman road. Landscape The parish slopes gently from the … the Middle Bronze Age, through the Iron Age and into the Roman period. 6 Latton's name, meaning 'farm where herbs were … Bridge. Communications Roads The line of Ermin Street, the Roman road from London to Cirencester and Gloucester via …
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… extraction little archaeological evidence of prehistoric, Roman or Saxon activity in the parish has been discovered. … sermon each Sunday, which was poorly attended, although no Roman Catholics or Nonconformists were reported. 4 In 1787 the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… pottery vessels, as well as floor and roof tiles, for the Roman town of Durocornovium (Wanborough) and its hinterland. … Register', WAM 70/71 (197576), 133. A. S. Anderson, The Roman pottery industry in north Wiltshire (Swindon Arch. Soc. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… third area close to or underlying the present village. 8 A Roman trackway and associated field system lay between … group of inhabitants. 17 No Protestant Nonconformity or Roman Catholic public worship is recorded in Marston Meysey. …