Winterton Roman villa is a

Roman villa A Roman villa was typically a farmhouse or country house built in the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, sometimes reaching extravagant proportions. Typology and distribution Pliny the Elder (23–79 AD) distinguished two kinds of villas n ...

in Winterton, North Lincolnshire. It was discovered in 1747.

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The villa was built in the 2nd century AD and reconstructed in the 4th century. It was partially excavated several times. Between 1958 and 1967 Ian Stead led a series of excavations at the site culminating in the 1976 volume ''Excavations at Winterton Roman Villa and Other Roman Sites in North Lincolnshire''. Following these excavations Winterton was one of the most (archaeologically) completely known villa sites in England. The villa comprises several buildings surrounding a courtyard measuring in width, including domestic spaces, agricultural buildings, and three

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s. Five large mosaics have been found at the site. The

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mosaic is one of thirteen examples of this subject from

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and is one of the two most northerly examples; the other being at the nearby

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. A mosaic depicting

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is in the

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along with a collection of pottery, coins, and glass.

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