Monument record MLI54197 - ROMAN VILLA WEST OF SCAMPTON CLIFF FARM
Summary
ROMAN VILLA WEST OF SCAMPTON CLIFF FARM
Type and Period (4)
- ARTEFACT SCATTER (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- VILLA (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FARMSTEAD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- MOSAIC (Roman - 300 AD? to 409 AD?)
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Full Description
The site is now grass covered and occupies a commanding outlook over the west from what is known as the Middle Street. Forty rooms and passages were exposed, some showing interesting Roman pavements. {1}
A large courtyard villa, excavated in 1795, revealed more than 40 rooms, many tessellated pavements, pottery, brooches and coins, including some of Constantine. Twenty skeletons, some lying on the foundation walls, some enclosed in stone coffins, were discovered in two of the rooms of the west wing. All were orientated east to west and point to Anglo-Saxon or later Christian burials. In addition, the skeleton of a woman with a Roman bronze ring on one of the finger bones was found. The published villa site is under plough and the indicated pottery site under crop. {2}
The excavation in 1795 revealed two mosaics, the larger one that paved the porticus on the west side of the main building is mid fourth century in date. {9}
Sources/Archives (9)
- <1> SLI4209 Scheduling Record: HBMC. AM 7. SAM 58.
- <2> SLI2709 Index: OS CARD INDEX. SCAMPTON. SK 97 NE:2,1964, HARPER F R.
- <3> SLI938 Bibliographic Reference: Rev. Cayley Illingworth. 1808. A Topographical Account of the Parish of Scampton in the County of Lincoln. pp.3-13.
- <4> SLI501 Article in Serial: D.F. Petch. 1958. Lincolnshire Architectural and Archaeological Society Reports and Papers. VOL 7, P106.
- <5> SLI3247 Index: SMR FILE. SCAMPTON. SK 97 NE:C -.
- <6> SLI196 Aerial Photograph: Paul Everson. 1975-90. RCHM. 2964/29,31-3.
- <7> SLI3613 Map: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. 1992-1996. National Mapping Programme. SK9578:LI.636.3.1-6,1995, .
- <8> SLI196 Aerial Photograph: Paul Everson. 1975-90. RCHM. 2916/12; 5156/10-11,14.
- <9> SLI10932 Bibliographic Reference: Neal, D.S. and Cosh, S.R.. 2002. Roman Mosaics of Britain. Volume 1: Northern Britain. pp.190-92.
Map
Location
Grid reference | Centred SK 9550 7854 (101m by 87m) |
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Civil Parish | SCAMPTON, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE |
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Record last edited
Mar 21 2021 8:35PM
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