Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Little Hadnock Roman Villa, Dixton Newtown
Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Villa
- Period
- Roman
- Date of designation
- 10 July 1976
- Community
- Monmouth
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.83388, -2.67573
- SAM number
- MM195
- Cadw record number
- 305
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of a building complex, which dates to the Romano-British period (c. AD 70 - 410). The site was identified when ploughing brought up a massive Roman sill stone, and the subsequent excavation of a number of trial trenches revealed the foundations of a building. At the point where the sill stone had been unearthed, excavation revealed a doorway flanked by a wall carrying bases for a colonnade. Finds of Roman pottery confirm the date of the building, which is likely to have been a rural villa of high status. The site lies in a ploughed field and there are no visible remains on the surface.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of Romano-British rural settlement and socio-economic organisation. The feature forms an important element within the wider context of Romano-British society in Wales and retains significant archaeological potential. Villas are often part of a larger cluster of rural and urban settlements and their importance can further enhanced by their group value.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Hadnock CourtNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Combination Farm Building at Hadnock CourtAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Barn at Hadnock CourtAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Newton Court, including attached stable buildings and screen wall to stable courtDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.