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Does Mansfield have another Romano-British high status complex ?

The Sherwood Archaeological Society will be displaying recent finds at the Local History Fair at Mansfield Library on May 8th.
Following a preliminary excavation and magnetometer survey, the indications are that Warsop Parish contains a Romano-British establishment possibly equal in status to the Villa at Woodhouse.
The presence of high-end tableware includes glass, Samian imports, Nene Valley colour-coated wares and significantly, a fragment of flue tile. Not the finds associated with a lowly farmstead of the period. A base of a finely crafted stone well-head was also revealed but footings confirming the original layout are yet to be found.
The finds were in the bottom of an Iron-age boundary ditch at the edge of the site, a typical depositary for romanised occupiers’ domestic rubbish.
An interim report is in preparation and work will continue as and when the farming crops allow. The landowner has entrusted the finds to the Society’s care and they will be conserved at Mansfield Museum.
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