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Bucknowle Farm is the site of a Romano-British settlement and a Roman villa, located one kilometre southeast of Church Knowle and one kilometre southwest of Corfe Castle village in Dorset, England ( grid reference SY95368146). It is about seven kilometres south of Wareham and approximately nine kilometres west of Swanage in the heart of the Isle of Purbeck.
A number of Romano-British sites have been discovered and studied on the Isle of Purbeck. The Romano-British villa complex found at Bucknowle Farm is the first substantial villa to be found south of the Purbeck Hills. [1] It was excavated between 1976 and 1991.
The first signs to its existence were unearthed in 1975 as fragments of pottery were found in a field. [2] [3] The excavations, that subsequently lasted until the summer of 1991, conclusively revealed a complex of domestic and farmstead buildings. Moreover, beneath these, a more complicated system of Iron Age and early Roman Age habitation was uncovered. [4]
There is a camping site within the grounds of Bucknowle Farm. [5]
References
- ^ Romano-British villa at Bucknowle Farm.
- ^ "National Character Areas / South Purbeck". 2014. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
- ^ "136. South Purbeck". 2014. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
- ^ Historic England. "Monument No. 456872". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 3 January 2014.
- ^ "Bucknowle Farm camping site". Simply Purbeck. UK. Archived from the original on 15 June 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
Further reading
- J. Collins, N. Field; A. Light, (1985), Excavations on the Roman Villa at Bucknowle Farm, Corfe Castle: A Summary of Work, 1976-84. Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society. ISBN 090034122X
- Tony Light, Peter Ellis (2009): Bucknowle, A Romano-British Villa and its ancedents: Excavations 1976-1991, Dorchester, ISBN 978-0-900341-87-8
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