{"id":8,"date":"2013-04-25T10:40:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T09:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/?p=8"},"modified":"2013-05-27T15:05:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T14:05:16","slug":"the-discovery-of-the-villa-1946-1963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2013\/04\/25\/the-discovery-of-the-villa-1946-1963\/","title":{"rendered":"The discovery of the villa 1946-1963"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/webapp1.somerset.gov.uk\/HER\/details.asp?prn=53634\" target=\"_blank\">Roman villa at Lufton<\/a> was discovered by Mr K. C. J. Hill in 1945. Mr Hill was ploughing a field and realised that his plough had hit the ruins of a stone building. The site was soon confirmed as that of a Roman Villa and it was excavated by Mr Leonard Hayward FSA and the boys of Yeovil Grammar School between 1946 and 1952 and again between 1960 and 1963.<\/p>\n<p>The excavations identified a fourth-century corridor house richly adorned with painted wall plaster and mosaics. Many of the finds from the excavations are now in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southsomersetheritage.org.uk\/43-410.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Community Heritage Ac<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southsomersetheritage.org.uk\/43-410.aspx\">cess Centre <\/a>in Yeovil. Today the site of the villa is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.english-heritage.org.uk\/caring\/listing\/scheduled-monuments\/\" target=\"_blank\">scheduled ancient monument<\/a> and protected by law.<\/p>\n<p>The villa has attracted considerable <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1468-0092.2005.00238.x\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\">academic attention<\/a> because it is one of a small number of excavated corridor houses that include a large and ostentatious octagonal bath suite.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1139px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" src=\"http:\/\/www.southsomersetheritage.org.uk\/media\/1627\/lufton_mosiac.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1129\" height=\"838\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mosaic from the Villa<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span>Further Reading:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hayward, L. 1952 \u2018The Roman villa at Lufton, near Yeovil\u2019, <em>Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society<\/em> 97:\u00a0 91-112.<\/p>\n<p>Hayward, L. 1972 \u2018The Roman villa at Lufton, near Yeovil\u2019, <em>Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society <\/em>116: 59-77.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Roman villa at Lufton was discovered by Mr K. C. J. Hill in 1945. Mr Hill was ploughing a field and realised that his plough had hit the ruins of a stone building. The site was soon confirmed as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2013\/04\/25\/the-discovery-of-the-villa-1946-1963\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-villa","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}