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North Leigh Roman Villa, Oxfordshire: A Report on Excavation and Recording in the 1970s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

Peter Ellis ,
Lynne Bevan ,
Tom Blagg ,
Simon Esmonde Cleary ,
Martin Henig ,
Stephanie Pinter-Bellows  and
Jane Timby
Peter Ellis
Affiliation:
Bath
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The report is focused on excavations in a suite of four rooms in the villa dating to the late third or early fourth century, associated with a plunge-pool excavated in the nineteenth century; the excavations were undertaken in advance of consolidation work. The rooms overlay a second- century bath-house also known from earlier work. The most important find was a hoard of fourth-century counterfeit coins which had been deposited in one of the rooms after it had gone out of use.

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Britannia , Volume 30 , November 1999 , pp. 199 - 245
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Copyright © Peter Ellis 1999. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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