Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester Iron Age and Romano-British Monuments in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1976.
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STINCHCOMBE
(18 miles w. of Cirencester)
On the evidence at present available the so-called hillfort of Drakestone Point (ST 73639795) cannot be regarded as a prehistoric monument (see p. xxxiv).
(1) Roman Villa (ST 741971), Stancombe, is known from brief accounts of a limited examination by P. B. Purnell in 1845. It was probably large. Lynchets (2) adjacent on the N. are likely to represent 'Celtic' fields, (see map, p. 86, s.v. North Nibley).
The villa was sited near the edge of an extensive and almost flat terrace of Middle Lias, above a slope falling sharply S.E. into a valley with a stream. Accounts refer summarily to an extensive villa, a suite of heated rooms with two rows of stone columns, and a tessellated pavement. The plan made by P. B. Purnell is now lost. Fragments of pavement, probably from the villa, are in Gloucester City Museum; there are also two inscribed stones, one funerary. One was from the immediate area of the villa. A collection of other objects probably includes material from the same villa.
Many walls adjacent to Stancombe Park are built, wholly or in part, of reused stone which could come from the villa. A 200-yd. length of wall, N. of the road at ST 73859755, includes large squared blocks of Oolite and flags of sandstone, some burned.
JBAA, II (1847), 349; IV (1849), 320. Sussex Arch. Colls. II (1849), 313–15. Witts (1883), 208, No. 7. The Antiquary, XXVII (1893), 71. RIB, I, Nos. 123–4. PNG, II, 250–1.
(2) Lynchets (ST 742974), in a broken pattern, E. of Stancombe and about 300 yds. N. of (1), probably represent 'Celtic' fields. They are up to 3 ft. high, on a moderate slope of Cotteswold Sand, below the 400-ft. contour.
R.A.F., VAP CPE/UK 2098: 4385.