Piddington Roman Villa

Piddington Roman Villa is a large Romano-British site at Piddington, Northamptonshire, about 9.7 km southeast of Northampton. Occupied from circa 50 BC with late Iron Age circular buildings, it evolved through a proto-villa phase around 70 AD into an increasingly large winged-corridor villa with courtyard by the 2nd century. Tile stamps identify two probable owners: Tiberius Claudius Verus and Tiberius Claudius Severus, likely Romanized Britons. The site was abruptly abandoned at the end of the 3rd century and deliberately dismantled. Rediscovered in 1781, it has been excavated by the Upper Nene Archaeological Society since 1979.