Des Res in Roman Peterborough

I came across a report from Peterborough Archaeology about the excavation of a substantial and once clearly handsome villa in what is now Fane Road in Peterborough.

This building had replaced an earlier timber villa on the site, which had previously had an Iron Age house on the site. The substantial stone villa indicates the quality of life its owner and their household could have enjoyed in the later period of Roman rule before decline set in during the later fourth century.

The report, complete with a plan and reconstruction drawing as well as pictures of finds can be accessed at Evidence for the Roman Villa