More information : SK 802625. A probable Roman villa is visible on the west bank of the Trent. Two narrow ditches 25 ft apart from three sides of a rectangle about 650 ft by 500 ft; the angles are sharp. In the centre is a building consisting of a range of rooms with wings at one end. In the drought of 1959, two lines of large post holes were visible beside the stone building; probably the remains of an earlier timber house. Roman pottery can be picked up on the site (1 & 2). Todd considers it to be a small portico-villa standing at the centre of a rectangular double-ditched enclosure. (1-3) SK802625. An Iron Age settlement underlies the eastern part of the Roman enclosure, yielding a cropmark of remarkable complexity. Immediately south of the enclosure, there is a further area of Iron Age settlement where several round houses are indicated by penannular drainage gullies. Pits are visible all over the site, some in rows suggesting timber buildings. (4) SK 801625. Site NNE of Cromwell Village; listed under Roman Remains. (5) |