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Ditchley is a country house and estate near Charlbury in Oxfordshire. ==Archaeology== There are remains of a Roman villa on the Ditchley Park estate at Watts Wells, less than southeast of the house.〔Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 576〕 It was a colonnaded house with outbuildings, threshing floors, and a granary with capacity for the produce of about of arable land.〔Emery, 1974, page 44〕 It was surrounded by a rectangular ditch by .〔Riley, 1943, page 87〕 The site is less than north of the course of Akeman Street Roman road, and is one of a number of Roman villas and Romano-British farmsteads that have been identified in the area,〔Emery, 1974, pages 41–45〕 apparently associated with the territory bounded by Grim's Ditch.〔Booth, 1999, pages 47–48〕 The villa site was identified by aerial archaeology in 1934 and excavated in 1935.〔Booth, 1999, page 41〕 It was found to have been first settled in about AD 70 with a set of timber-framed buildings, which were replaced in stone in the 2nd century.〔 In about AD 200 a fire severely damaged the stone buildings and the site was abandoned.〔 The site was reoccupied early in the 4th century, and occupation on a more modest scale than before continued until the end of that century.〔 Some time before the villa was discovered and excavated, a hoard of 1,176 bronze Roman coins was found between Box Wood and Out Wood, about to northeast of the villa site.〔Sutherland, 1936, page 70〕 The coins range in date from about AD 270 onwards and seem to have been buried in a ceramic pot about AD 395, towards the end of the Roman occupation.〔Sutherland, 1936, page 71〕 The hoard was transferred to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford in 1935.〔 Grim's Ditch, which passes through the present park and estate, is an ancient boundary believed to have been constructed during the Roman occupation of Britain in about the 1st century AD.〔Copeland, 1988, page 287〕 The toponym "Ditchley" is derived from a compound of two Old English words, meaning the woodland clearing (''"-ley"'') on Grim's Ditch. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ditchley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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