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4 unusual facts about Roman villa


Argentomagus

Substantial areas of the ruins have been excavated, including an amphitheatre, a Roman villa, a cemetery, a thermal spring.

Bussana

A Roman villa is located near the village, by the estuary of river Armea.

Colworth House

Numerous finds by amateur archaeologists led to the discovery of a Roman villa and farm in a field adjacent to the property.

Roy and Lesley Adkins

After graduating, he worked as a field archaeologist in Milton Keynes, then worked on the major excavation of a prehistoric settlement and Roman villa site at Beddington near Croydon with Lesley.


Grimston, Norfolk

The village was built on a spring line and a Roman villa was found near Watery Lane in the late 19th century.

History of urban centers in the Dutch Low Countries

Probably because of the (founded) fear of Germanic incursions, Roman settlements (such as Roman villas and colonies) were extremely sparse, and Roman presence was mainly limited to three Castra: (Noviomagus, near modern Nijmegen; Flevum, near Velsen; and a last one near Oudenburg, its name is unknown); and a set of Castellum.

Raschpëtzer Qanat

The qanat appears to have provided water for a large Roman villa on the slopes of the Alzette valley.

Sanitation

Roman cities and Roman villas had elements of sanitation systems, delivering water in the streets of towns such as Pompeii, and building stone and wooden drains to collect and remove wastewater from populated areas - see for instance the Cloaca Maxima into the River Tiber in Rome.

Villena

The first known name of the area is Ad Turres, which appears in the Vascula Apollinaria and has been identified with some of the Roman villas or postae in the Via Augusta itinerary, at some point between Villena and Font de la Figuera.


see also

Eugippius

After the latter's death in 482, he took the remains to Naples and founded a monastery on the site of a 1st-century Roman villa, the Castellum Lucullanum (on the site of the later Castel dell'Ovo).

Roman villa of Outeiro de Polima

In the archaeological campaigns, a large barn (similar to Roman villa of Monroy near Cáceres) and a solar quadrant were found.

Villa romana de Río Verde

Villa romana de Río Verde is a Roman villa on the coast of Marbella, Spain.

Whitestaunton Manor

Excavations carried out in 1882, when the house was owned by Charles Isaac Elton, had identified a building, thought to be a roman villa, which had been incorporated into the grounds, and designated as a Scheduled monument.