All these hours spent at computer trying to work out where Roman villas might be has finally paid off. I have been able to update the National Monument Register (NMR).

One of the records I’ve been looking at describes a Roman villa in the parish of Sproxton at site called Denton Field. This came from a source dating back to the early part of the 19th century. After much searching I was able to demonstrate that this was in fact near to the village of Denton in Lincolnshire. My source was a book I found on Google Books which described a fox hunt in the 1850’s through the area and ending up at Denton Field.

It turns out that there was already a Roman villa recorded at Denton and no doubt the 1811 book got its parishes and counties mixed up – Sproxton and Denton are around 6 miles apart.

To quote Tallahassee from Zombieland…” you got to enjoy the little things…’

Simon Marchini
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