Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
more woodland and into an enclosure containing
Belas Knap,
a Neolithic
burial chamber and one of the finest historic sites of the whole walk. An
information board gives details (grid ref: 021255).
WADFIELD ROMAN VILLA
Situated above Winchcombe and hidden from the Cotswold Way by a screen of con-
ifers, Wadfield Roman Villa is one of several Roman buildings in the district. The site
was excavated in 1894-5, having been discovered 30 years previously by a farm work-
er while ploughing. Occupying an exposed hillside overlooking the north-east, the villa
consisted of a courtyard, at least two heated rooms, and two others with mosaic pave-
ments. A shed on the site contains sections of floor mosaic.
Having entered the walled enclosure, allow due time to study the bar-
row, then leave it and head a little south of west along the right-hand
boundary of a large field, following the line of a drystone wall. At the end
of the field continue on a farm track until it dips into a hollow at Wontley
Farm, where another track breaks away to the right by a barn. This is the
