WORTLEY ROMANO-BRITISH VILLA Wortley, Gloucestershire

Welcome to the home page of the Wortley Villa website

This website is dedicated to the Excavation Project undertaken at Wortley Romano-British Villa that started in 1983 and stopped in 1996.

When the excavation ended, the main structure of the villa had been revealed but it became apparent that some of the complex lies outside the excavated area.  The reports cover work up to 1996 but some geophysical work continues to try to interpret the areas outside the original excavation.  In due course, the final report is likely to be published here.  As far as possible future work will be reported here.

(Picture: early days at the site © Tony Boxall)

The site also provides information about the Friends of the Wortley Villa Excavation who meet periodically.  There are copies of past newsletters, information about project members and some photographs, old and recent.

If you want find out more, read selected pages, search the site and reports or contact us direct.

A note about the logo: the image on the top of the website pages is of a Roman buckle plate incised with a peacock (Latin: pavo) found on the site in 1985.  This gave the name to the newsletter, The Pavonian.

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