This preliminary report presents the findings of trial excavations at Deerton Street carried out during August 1999. Described as a villa structure, internal features were identified bounded by substantial stone Roman walling, on the west bank of the spring. Features within the villa included hypocaust heating, painted plaster, imported pottery, window glass, tesellated floors, a coin series dating up to the the reign of Arcadius (395-402) and some possible evidence from saxon pottery that the structure was used/reused in the early medieval period.