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Publication Date: Late Summer 2007

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Summary:

This is an account of the preliminary fieldwork and subsequent excavation of the Romano-British Villa complex at Whitehall Farm, Nether Heyford, Northamptonshire. It outlines the chronology and layout of the site and provides a detailed description of the buildings and features of the settlement revealed during the first phase of excavation between the years 2000-2004. The discoveries made at Whitehall have enabled us to reconstruct the development of the villa complex from its origins as a native farmstead during the early to mid 2nd century AD to a sophisticated country estate with a substantial villa range and bath-house of the late 3rd to early 4th century AD. Whitehall typifies local settlement and is one of several latifundia that flourished and was dominant in the local landscape in the late Roman period. The material and structural evidence for continuity of occupation during the Post Roman period of late Antiquity in the 5th century will also be considered and its importance explained. All of the evidence from Whitehall in conjunction with some recent survey work carried out on neighbouring settlements will be used to place the findings in a wider regional context. Diligent fieldwork has shown that the Romanisation of this area has a distinctive profile that not only enables us to speculate on the economic and social aspects of a rural Roman landscape but also offers us the opportunity to explore innovative methodological approaches for future research of the area.