Gayton Thorpe Roman Villa

Gayton Thorpe Roman Villa is the site of a Roman villa, near Gayton Thorpe and about 5 miles (8 km) east of King's Lynn, in Norfolk, England [1]. It was discovered in 1906 and first excavated in the 1920s, when two winged corridor buildings were found [1]. The site is about 500 metres (1,600 ft) from a tributary of the River Nar [1]. Three third-century coins and some Samian ware were found at the site [1]. Aerial photographs of the 1970s showed that there was a detached bathhouse to the south, and that there was a boundary ditch enclosing the buildings, with an entrance road on the west shown by its flanking ditches [1]. A further excavation of the site took place in 2006, involving geophysical surveying to investigate buildings not documented in the 1920s [1].