Ro villa. Late C3 mosaic found 1856. (1) (2) (3)
Excavations uncovered remains of a Roman villa, probably of the winged corridor type, at Glebe Farm. A tesselated pavement, mosaics, a Roman coin and 1st - 4th century pottery was also found. Occupation of the site spanned from the late 1st century to the first of the 4th century. There are adjacent cropmarks of linear features, enclosures and a ring ditch. Scheduled. (6)
In 1856 a tesselated pavement was found, at Glebe Farm. Excavations carried out in 1933 and 1949 which were limited to small exploratory trenches beside the farm buildings suggest a villa of winged corridor type. It is a reasonable conjecture that the villa consisted basically of a block running N-S, some 180-200ft long, with extensions running W-E at each extremity, each perhaps 150ft in length, the whole enclosing a yard. Occupation beginning in a small way in the early C2 and lasting, with increasing intensity, to the middle of the C4. (4)
TESSELATED PAVEMENT, has disappeared. SK 526317 immediately N & NW of Glebe Farm Roman Villa. Cropmarks of linear features, enclosures and a small ring ditch. (7)
Excavations have been covered in and the land has been under crop. (5)
See M680 for ? IA-Ro farmstead.

OS, 1955, 6in 1955 (Map). SNT1069.

<1> Nottm Guardian, 23/02/1877, Nottm Guardian (Published document). SNT259.

<2> Royal Arch Institute, 1886, Archaeological Journal (Published document). SNT103.

<3> 1856, Gents Magazine (Published document). SNT174.

<4> Thoroton Society, 1951, TTS, pp 3-20 (Published document). SNT365.

<5> Harper FR, 1961, Pers Comm (Personal comment). SNT747.

<6> Historic England, 2021, National Record of Historic Environment (Digital archive). SNT5271.

<7> Trent Valley Arch. Research Commtt, 1980, Trent Valley Archives Research Committee Gazette, p.45 (Published document). SNT6106.

<8> Data Held: Aerial Photograph (Aerial photograph). SNT2645.

DNR SF864/17