More information : "SU 737114 - Romano-British habitation site, north west of chalk-pit in field. Several buildings. Finds: R-B burial urn. 2-3000 pot fragments including Samian and New Forest wares, coins, spear-head, Saxon decorated bead, ivory needle, etc. Mosaic floor destroyed". (1-2)
Cropmarks, at SU 737116, on an air-photograph (a) have been compared with those of the Ditchley villa. Stanley's excavations were made in the sides of the chalk-pit; the mosaic floor was elsewhere in the field and was ploughed up, the farmer giving Stanley some of the tesserae. Excavation has ceased. (3)
Between the two grid references given the field shows a light scatter of thin red tile, until at `A' - SU 73701145 it concentrated with very large brick fragments and flanged tile visible. Recent ploughing of the field to the south-west shows no evidence of an extension of the complex. (4)
Site of a substantial farm or small villa, being destroyed by deep ploughing. Two aisled buildings at least are visible, and perhaps another (or a corridor house) surrounded by a yard wall (SU 73601150 73651147, 73701146). (5-6)
HA 81 Listed as the site of a Roman villa. (7)
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