Monument record 0057100000 - MUSWELL HILL, BRILL

Summary

Possible Roman villa known from various findspots

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Type and Period (1)

VILLA? (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Description

QUANTITY OF BROKEN TILES & POTTERY FOUND NEAR ROAD ON MUSWELL HILL SEEMS TO POINT TO A VILLA THERE (B6).
POTSHERDS & TILES FOUND ON ROAD TO MUSWELL HILL, BUT NOTHING IS TRACEABLE ON THE SURFACE (B3).
AREA CENTRED AT NGR (B7).

(SP 641153) Roman sherds including pieces of tile with incised linear pattern have been found on Muswell Hill by Private Chittick. (B4)
SP 642153. Part of a Samian dish and piece of broken tile in Bucks Co Mus. (Acc No 44 1860) (B10).
Nothing visible on AP's (B11).
A Roman coin hoard is reported to have been found on Muswell Hill (a) and in 1972 the Museum was informed that lumps of slag, which may be Roman, has also been found at SP 644154 (B8).

NRHE insert 1998. Update 1999 and 2016 (B14)

This record includes National Record of the Historic Environment Information provided by Historic England on 4 June 2025 licensed under the Open Government Licence.

Sources (14)

<1>SBC13298 Article in serial: RECS OF BUCKS 1859 2 P170; & BCM ACCESSIONS REGIST ER.
<2>SBC2573 Bibliographic reference: CATALOGUE OF MUSEUM OF ARTICLES--- NEWPORT PAGNELL 1860 P7 NO65.
<3>SBC20466 Bibliographic reference: Royal Commision on Historical Monuments. 1912. Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume 1. Volume 1. p62.
<4>SBC11466 Bibliographic reference: OXONIENSIA 1944 8 P193.
<5>SBC11467 Bibliographic reference: OXONIENSIA 1945 10 P96.
<6>SBC858 Bibliographic reference: F W Bateson. 1966. BRILL, A SHORT HISTORY. p2.
<7>SBC11371 Unpublished document: Ordnance Survey Field Investigator. OS RECORD CARDS (FILED); FOR THE COIN HOARD, SEE OS CARD SP 61 NW 5, WHICH HAS A REFERENCE TO JRS VOL 22 (1932) p92.
<8>SBC11461 Unpublished document: Oxfordshire County Council. OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL SITES & MONUMENTS RECORD PRN 2793, 2796.
<9>SBC12024 Verbal communication: PIKE A R FEB 1986.
<10>SBC27633 Digital archive: VIRTUAL CATALOGUE ENTRY TO SUPPORT NAR MIGRATION - Rec 6" Buckinghamshire County Museum(Anon;undated).
<11>SBC28516 Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1961. F41 58/RAF/4655 0003-4 30.8.61.
<12>SBC27450 Bibliographic reference: Eleanor Scott. 1993. A gazetteer of Roman villas in Britain.
<13>SBC28517 Serial: Society for Promotion of Roman Studies. 1932. The journal of Roman studies volume 22, 1932. p92.
<14>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE).

Location

Grid reference	SP 64040 15350 (point)
Civil Parish	BRILL, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire