The Roman villa at Margam

A very recently publicised discovery from the Roman era, is the site of a substantial villa at Margam near Port Talbot in south-west Wales. 

The discovery is of important for a number of reasons. The site lies under water once a deer park, so it is not been disturbed by ploughing over intervening centuries. Whereas most Roman sites in Wales tend to be fortifications this reveals that there was also a villa economy, as in other parts of lowland Britain. The suggestion is that this may have been the property of a local chieftain who had been Romanised. This might account for the moat around the complex, or it might reflect the more trouble times, which affected Britannia in the later years of Roman rule.

 

The article from BBC News can be seen at Margam park Roman villa find could be 'Port Talbot's Pompeii'