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A black and white technical drawing shows a plan of a rectangular building with columns and a cross-section of a brick wall.

Ickleton Roman farmstead (1849)

Roman Villa site S of Rose Villa, Ickleton

History of Roma Villa S of Rose Villa

Scheduled Monument:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Archaeological_Journal/Volume_6/Memoir_on_Roman_Remains_and_Villas_Discovered_at_Ickleton_and_Chesterford,_in_the_Course_of_Recent_Excavations

There are remains of a Roman Temple and villa.

The Ickleton Roman farmstead was excavated by Richard Neville in 1849. It had been discovered in 1847 when a local farmer Samual Jonas noticed that stubble fires on Church Platt field burned especially fiercely. Neville discovered a villa and nearby a basilica.

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