Cosgrove, Northamptonshire

Cosgrove, Northamptonshire
KyleH · CC BY 3.0

Cosgrove is a village in Northamptonshire notable for an extensive Roman villa, bath house, and temple complex south-east of Cosgrove Hall. Discovered in 1957 when Roman pottery was ploughed up, excavations in the 1950s-60s revealed a well-preserved bath house and a double-corridor villa built around AD 100, arranged around a large courtyard covering over 1 hectare. Finds include an urn of 60 silver denarii and medallions of Constantine I, Valentinian II, and Magnus Maximus. The site, occupied from the 1st to late 4th century, is a Scheduled Monument now listed on the Heritage at Risk register.

TypeResidence/villa/farmhouse
Period1 - 500 AD
CountryEngland
Coordinates52.0762° N, 0.8470° W

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