North Leigh Roman Villa

North Leigh Roman Villa was a Roman courtyard villa in the Evenlode Valley about 0.5 miles north of the hamlet of East End in North Leigh civil parish in Oxfordshire [1]. Excavations indicate that the site was first occupied during the Late Iron Age [1]. In the 1st or early 2nd century AD the first villa building was built [1]. This consisted of three buildings, one of which was a bath-house [1]. Early in the 3rd century the south-west and north-east wings were added, partially enclosing the courtyard [1]. By the 4th century some of the buildings on the north western and south western ranges had been rebuilt and extended [1]. In its 4th century form the villa had 60 rooms built on three sides of the courtyard with the fourth side formed by a corridor in which the gateway was set [1].