More information : (SO 87691755) Roman Villa (R) (Site of) (1)
The Roman villa at Hucclecote was excavated by Canon Bazeley in 1911,
and, more thoroughly by E.M Clifford and W.H Knowles in 1933. Of
corridor plan, it measured approximately 100ft N/S by 50ft E/W, with
a corridor on the east side, additional rooms at the ends, and wings
and bath buildings projecting to the west. A piece of incised wall-
plaster found on the site, bearing the sketch of a house gable,may
idicate that the villa was two storeys. The centre block was thought
to have been built c.150 AD, and occupation may have been continuous
until some time in the C5th. A coins of Theodosius, found beneath one of the mosaic pavements in the villa, proved it to have been laid after AD 395 and other coins dated from Trajan to Honorius, though predominantly Constantinian. Pottery ranged from C1st and C2nd. Samian to red-coated ware and ollae of up to c.400 AD. Below the centre of the building was a Late Bronze Age habitation site with a surrounding ditch containing flints and fragments of Deveril-Rimbury ware, and beneath another room was an occupation trench, with a spear-head, Iron Age pottery and an iron object thought to be a brooch. Finds are in the Gloucester, Cheltenham and Stroud Museums. (2-5)
Excavations in 1958 to the south of the villa (at SO 8769-1750) prior
to the building of a school, revealed stone footings, probably for
half-timbered outbuildings belonging to the early life of the villa.
Finds included Samian ware of the Flavian period and an early C2nd brooch. (6)
Historic aerial photographs of this site were viewed and assessed as part of the Severn Vale NMP project, but recorded no features. (8) |