Monument record 0086800000 - YEWDEN VILLA

Summary

Roman villa recorded in excavation in the early twentieth century

Protected Status/Designation

  • Ancient Monument 1014606: ROMAN VILLA NORTH OF YEWDEN LODGE (DBC7201)
  • Planning Notification Area: Roman villa complex at Yewden, with associated buildings, field systems and trackways (DBC8650)
  • SHINE: Yewden Roman villa complex and associated field systems (DBC8286)

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Type and Period (1)

  • VILLA (1st Century Roman to 4th Century - 43 AD to 399 AD)

Description

VILLA SITE, MID C1 TO END C4. MAIN AREA OF HOUSE & OUTBUILDINGS ENCLOSED BY FLINT WALL. ?EARLIER INDUSTRIAL AREA TO N. DITCHED RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE TO E. OTHER BUILDINGS WEST OF VILLA (CASS 04557), & MILL END VILLA, ONLY 700M SE, MAY BE ASSOCIATED (CASS 00788). EXCAVATED BY A H COCKS, 1912 (B1-9).
SCHEDULED: SAM 27160 (B21).
Included in English Heritage's Heritage at Risk Register 2009, 2011, 2015-2024. Condition described as 'Extensive significant problems ie under plough, collapse' with the principal vulnerability from arable ploughing and trend as declining. In 2017-2019 condition described as 'Generally unsatisfactory with major localised problems' with the principal vulnerability from arable ploughing and trend as stable. In 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 condition described as 'Generally unsatisfactory with major localised problems' with the principal vulnerability from arable ploughing and trend as declining. In 2024 the trend was described as improving. Priority assessed as category A: No action/strategy identified or agreed (B23,B28,B30,B32-34,B36-41).
Community archaeology project from 2008 to 2010 to re-evaluate evidence from Cocks' excavation and to gather additional information from the vicinity of the villa by fieldwalking and metal-detecting surveys, geophysics and woodland surveys (B27).

Sources (42)

  • ---SBC21164 Aerial Photograph: RCHM (NMR). 1990. 1990 RCHM (NMR) Oblique AP. SU786854. Yes.
  • <1>SBC3070 Article in serial: Alfred Heneage Cocks. 1921. 'A ROMANO-BRITISH HOMESTEAD IN THE HAMBLEDEN VALLEY', IN ARCHAEOLOGIA 71 PP141-198. Vol 71.
  • <2>SBC20466 Bibliographic reference: Royal Commision on Historical Monuments. 1912. Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire. Volume 1. p181.
  • <3>SBC13219 Article in serial: RECS OF BUCKS 10 1912-13 PP131,183.
  • <4>SBC6871 Article in serial: JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES 11 1921 P215.
  • <5>SBC1692 Article in serial: 1925. BERKS, BUCKS & OXON ARCH. JNL 29 P81. Vol 29.
  • <6>SBC1836 Article in serial: Keith Branigan. 1968. 'ROMANO BRITISH RURAL SETTLEMENT IN THE WEST CHILTERNS', IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL JNL 124 P152. Vol 124.
  • <7>SBC11093 Unpublished document: Ordnance Survey Field Investigator. OS RECORD CARD SU 78 NE 12 (FILED).
  • <8>SBC1877 Article in serial: Mike Farley (BCM). 1983. NOTE IN BRITANNIA 14 PP256-259. Vol 14.
  • <9>SBC900 Unpublished document: BCM ACCESSIONS & LOANS REGISTERS.
  • <10>SBC4354 Verbal communication: DR GRACE SIMPSON, OXFORD, TO M E FARLEY FEB 1979.
  • <11>SBC9260 Verbal communication: MR BOWDEN TO M E FARLEY APRIL 1979.
  • <12>SBC9331 Unpublished document: MR M R BIRD & M E FARLEY, SEPT 1979 (& SEE LIST OF FINDS & PHOTOS FILED).
  • <13>SBC2258 Unpublished document: County Museum Archaeological Group. CMAG CATALOGUE OF HAMBLEDEN IRONWORK.
  • <14>SBC467 Graphic material: Denise Allen (BCM). AP 1-9. PLOT AT 1:2500 (NMR METHOD) (PLOT FILED).
  • <15>SBC5581 Bibliographic reference: T Gates. 1975. MIDDLE THAMES VALLEY: ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE RIVER GRAVELS P42 & MAP 21.
  • <16>SBC5529 Verbal communication: G E SCRIMGFOUR, FROM B14, JUNE 1988.
  • <17>SBC6893 Unpublished document: Arthur Keith. Undated. 'REPORT ON THE HUMAN REMAINS DISCOVERED...DURING EXCAVATIONS OF THE ROMAN SITE AT YEWDEN, HAMBLEDEN.
  • <18>SBC638 Bibliographic reference: ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM & M E FARLEY, 1978.
  • <19>SBC4331 Unpublished document: DR C E KING, ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM, OXFORD, OCT 1983/BCM COIN CATALOGUE.
  • <20>SBC7097 Article in serial: D King. 1986. 'PETROLOGY, DATING & DISTRIBUTION OF QUERNS & MILLSTONES', IN UNIV LONDON INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY BULLETIN 23 PP65-126.
  • <21>SBC23998 Scheduling record: English Heritage. 1996. SCHEDULING LISTS OF INSPECTORATE OF ANCIENT MONUMENTS.
  • <22>XYSBC13178 Unpublished document: RCHM(E). 1995. The Thames Valley Project: a Report for the National Mapping Programme. [Mapped feature: #1148 Polygon based on area defined on old SMR 1:10,000 OS quarter sheet map, ]
  • <23>SBC23453 Bibliographic reference: English Heritage. 2009. Heritage at Risk Register 2009: South East. p30.
  • <24>SBC23527 Unpublished document: Simon Mays. October 2008. Romans in the Hambleden Valley Project.
  • <25>SBC24017 Article in serial: Simon Mays & Jill Eyers. 2011. 'Perinatal Infant Death at the Roman Villa Site at Hambleden', in Journal of Archaeological Science 38 pp1931-1938. Vol 38.
  • <26>SBC24018 Article in serial: Jill Eyers & Simon Mays. 2011. 'Infanticide in Roman Britain?: The Yewden Villa Babies', in Current Archaeology 260 pp28-33. Issue 260.
  • <27>SBC24001 Bibliographic reference: J E Eyers (ed). 2011. Romans in the Hambleden Valley: Yewden Roman Villa.
  • <28>SBC24032 Bibliographic reference: English Heritage. 2011. Heritage at Risk Register 2011: South East. p26.
  • <29>SBC24373 Article in serial: Agnieszka Tomas. 2013. 'Armia rzymska i prostytucja – mit czy rzeczywistość?', in Archeo U W (Journal of the University of Warsaw, Institute of Archaeology). No 1.
  • <30>SBC24601 Digital archive: Historic England. 2015. Heritage at Risk Register 2015.
  • <31>SBC24733 Article in serial: Simon Mays. 2014. The baby burials at Yewden Roman Villa - English Heritage Research News 21, September 2014.
  • <32>SBC24775 Digital archive: Historic England. 2016. Heritage at Risk Register 2016. p8.
  • <33>SBC24932 Digital archive: Historic England. 2017. Heritage at Risk Register 2017.
  • <34>SBC25083 Digital archive: Historic England. 2018. Heritage at Risk Register 2018.
  • <35>SBC24859 Bibliographic reference: David S Neal and Stephen R Cosh. 2009. Roman Mosaics of Britain Volume III: South-east Britain Part 1.
  • <36>SBC25245 Digital archive: Historic England. 2019. Heritage at Risk Register 2019. p133.
  • <37>SBC25497 Digital archive: Historic England. 2020. Heritage at Risk Register 2020.
  • <38>SBC25511 Digital archive: Historic England. 2021. Heritage at Risk Register 2021.
  • <39>SBC25896 Digital archive: Historic England. 2022. Heritage at Risk Register 2022.
  • <40>SBC26583 Digital archive: Historic England. 2023. Heritage at Risk Register 2023.
  • <41>SBC26954 Digital archive: Historic England. 2024. Heritage at Risk Register 2024.

Location

Grid reference Centred SU 78375 85615 (344m by 349m) (2 map features)
Civil Parish HAMBLEDEN, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Related Events/Activities (3)

  • Event - Survey: Aerial photography (EBC119)
  • Event - Intervention: Excavation (EBC1000)
  • Event - Survey: Fieldwalking (Ref: HAM08) (EBC17236)

Record last edited

Feb 21 2025 6:43PM

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