Build here?

5. Build here? • Need agricultural land. • Access to roads. • Access to towns for supplies. • Access to towns for markets. • Previous links to site? • Water supply. • Business or political links?

7. Round house

9. Corridor

10. Wings

12. Lockleys Villa, Herts

21. Llantwit Major

22. Problems with villas. • Short stay? • Who stayed? • How big were the estates? • Did they all have estates? • How much was functional? • Who owned the estates? • How many slaves? • 97 infant burials at Hambledon villa.

23. Chedworth

25. Dining Room Mosaic: Winter

27. Chedworth • Lies in the Coln Valley • Faces east • Shelter from westerly winds • Continuous water supply • Good building stone nearby • Good road access to towns • The White Way and The Fosse Way • 22 other known villas in 10 mile radius of Chedworth • Growth mirrored by that of towns

30. How and why did villas in Roman Britain develop to become larger and more luxurious? Youshould support your answer with reference to specific examples of villas.[2011]

31. How: • detailed descriptions of ‘larger and more luxurious villas’ such as Chedworth, North Leigh, Woodchester; • their relative sizes and extent; • number and layout of rooms; • types of decoration, including mosaics and wall-painting as appropriate • (all these should be accurately cited and discussed); • timescales for the development of these examples, accurately cited (so far as is possible). • Why: • changes in agriculture leading to increased incomes for villa-owners; • the introduction of new crop types; • new types of tool (mould-board plough, scythe), and increased use of iron tools. • changes in layout of fields (longer strip fields against smaller square Celtic ones meaning less land is left fallow or unused, and more draught oxen can be employed); • corn-driers and granaries for storage; • influx of continental money.