Bucknowle Farm

Bucknowle Farm is the site of a Romano-British settlement and a Roman villa, located 1 km southeast of Church Knowle and 1 km southwest of Corfe Castle village in Dorset, England [1]. It is about 7 km south of Wareham and approximately 9 km west of Swanage in the heart of the Isle of Purbeck [1]. The Romano-British villa complex found at Bucknowle Farm is the first substantial villa to be found south of the Purbeck Hills [1]. It was excavated between 1976 and 1991 [1]. The first signs to its existence were unearthed in 1975 as fragments of pottery were found in a field [1]. The excavations, that subsequently lasted until the summer of 1991, conclusively revealed a complex of domestic and farmstead buildings [1]. Beneath these, a more complicated system of Iron Age and early Roman Age habitation was uncovered [1].