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Brychau Roman Villa , Wick

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NPRN411701
Map ReferenceSS97SW
Grid ReferenceSS9329071640
Unitary (Local) AuthorityThe Vale of Glamorgan
Old CountyGlamorgan
CommunityLlandow
Type Of SiteDEFENDED ENCLOSURE
PeriodRoman
Description
Probable Roman villa, comprising cropmarks of a square, univallate defended enclosure c.45m across, which has produced Iron Age and Roman finds from metal-detecting. The site was recognised on GoogleEarth vertical aerial photography (dating from 2001) by Eric Harvey, when it showed as a ripened positive cropmark in a field of barley. Due to collapse or 'lodging' of the crop in various places it is difficult to make out further detail besides the ditched enclosure.

Metal detecting across the field by Mr Harvey has produced a range of brooches and some coinage dating from the late Iron Age to the Roman period, and from later periods. These finds have been reported to the National Museum Wales, Cardiff. The site lies to the south-west of a series of springs, Ffynnon y Brychau, which drain north and may have been significant to its location.

The enclosure may be similar to that at Whitton Lodge to the east (NPRN 227673), whereby a slightly larger (65m) square defended enclosure of the Iron Age was subsequently re-occupied and altered into a Roman villa through several phases.

T. Driver, RCAHMW, 27th September 2010.