More information : At ST 8175 6135, west of Trinity School, Bradford-on-Avon an
excavation in 1976 revealed the bath-suite and adjacent outhouses
of a Romano-British villa.(1)
A Roman villa was seen as parchmarks on the playing fields of Trinity School, Bradford-on-Avon in August 1999. The site consists of the main villa building which comprises a building approximately 37m x 16m, containing a number of rooms. The central area consists of a block of 5 rooms of varying sizes, although those to the east and west are larger than those in the middle. A compact parched area in the north-east of the villa could be interpreted as a hypocaust or mosaic flooring, but could equally represent wall collapse or roof debris. A corridor runs across the probable front of the villa, set back slightly from the end rooms and showing evidence of either a colonnade or of roof supports.
To the south-east of the main buildings a wall and other buildings, one with possible sub-divisions, extend to the east partly enclosing the ground in front of the villa. (3)
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