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Roman Villa, Lockleys, Welwyn

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

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The Roman villa at Lockleys, Welwyn (the excavation of which was described in Antiquaries Journal, 1938, XVIII, 339–76), happened to provide more evidence than is usual of the character of the superstructures which once stood upon the surviving foundations. It has therefore seemed worth while to attempt a restorcation-drawing of the house as it appeared in Roman times. The drawing, which is reproduced in the accompanying plate, is the work of Mr H. C. Lander, who has based it upon the results of the excavation, supplemented where necessary by analogies from other sites. It obviously cannot hope to claim complete accuracy of detail, but probably it does give a not wholly untrustworthy picture of a small middle-class native farmer’s house in the late second or early third century A.D.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1940

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