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Winterton Roman Villa: An Interim Report
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 November 2011
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Winterton Roman villa (SE. 911182) has been known since the eighteenth century, when mosaic pavements from the site were recorded first by Charles Mitley and later by William Fowler. Only five miles north of Scunthorpe, the site (fig. 1) lies on the North Lincolnshire ironstone deposits, and the villa will ultimately be destroyed by opencast mining. In view of this threat, the Inspectorate of Ancient Monuments, Ministry of Public Building and Works, carried out a series of small-scale excavations between 1958 and 1961; in 1963 these excavations were resumed on a larger scale, and it is hoped that all the buildings will be excavated before the threat materializes. Much more remains to be done, but in view of the time already spent on the work it was felt that an interim report was called for.
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page 72 note 1 Mitley's engraving is reproduced in Vetusta Monumenta, ii (1789), pl. ix; Fowler copied this engraving and reproduced it, with some additions and with a separate engraving of the Fortuna pavement, in his Coloured engravings …, etc., 1804.
page 72 note 2 The writer is most grateful to Mr. J. W. Hiles, Old Cliff Farm, Winterton, for his keen co-operation throughout the period of the excavations. Thanks are also due to the several site supervisors, Mrs. S. M. Stead, Miss J. E. Mellor, Miss J. M. Wilkins (Mrs. R. J. Rodden), C. J. Gordon, M. F. Haynes, R. E. M. Hedges, D. E. Johnston, and A. L. Pacitto; to Miss Valerie Rigby, who was in charge of the Pottery Shed 1963–4; and to Miss G. Jones, who prepared the plans from originals drawn by the site supervisors.
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page 83 note 7 Excavated in 1964 by the writer for the Inspectorate of Ancient Monuments, Ministry of Public Building and Works.
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page 84 note 1 I. A. Richmond, Roman Britain (1955), pp. 112–13. No Italian site with a villa rustica has been excavated, but G. D. Barri Jones has drawn my attention to an aerial photograph of a villa near Troia, Apulia, with an arrangement of buildings very similar to Winterton.