[TQ 76575485] Roman Villa [GS] (Site of) (1)

Walls of a Roman villa, suggestive of a courtyard type, were uncovered at Maidstone in 1870 in a field east of the road to Loose and 250 yards south-east of St Philips Church. [See plan AO/LP/63/98]. (2 - 3)

Traces of the villa were found while building the Boys Grammar School, 1929, but no details are given and nothing more is known at Maidstone Museum. Nothing is visible on the ground and no further finds were made when a house was erected some years ago a few yards from the siting given. No further information was obtained at the school where a watch for such evidence has been kept. (4)

Additional bibliography. (5 - 6)

KE 57 Listed as the site of a Roman villa. (7-8)

Eleanor Scott, 1993, A gazetteer of Roman villas in Britain (Unspecified Type). SWX23549.

<1> OS 1/1250 1958 (OS Card Reference). SKE48117.

<2> Arch Cant 10 1876 163-72 (plan) (C R Smith) (OS Card Reference). SKE34507.

<3> VCH Kent 3 1932 99 (R E M Wheeler) (OS Card Reference). SKE51154.

<4> Maidstone Museum Gazetteer (Anon undated) (OS Card Reference). SKE46464.

<5> The Roman Villa in Britain 1969 274 286 (A L F Rivet) (OS Card Reference). SKE50506.

<6> The Archaeology of Kent 1930 259 (R F Jessup) (OS Card Reference). SKE50081.

<7> F1 CFW 24-FEB-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42746.