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This was the view from the road leading to the villa

On our second weekend of freedom we went to explore the remains of the local Roman villa. THE LOCAL ROMAN VILLA. What a country. Archimedes was in heaven. 

DISCLAIMER – I copied this directly from the Bancroft Roman Villa Page from The Parks Trust. I did the copying so you didn’t have to hunt it down, but this isn’t my writing!

The Bancroft Roman Villa was discovered during MK Development Corporation building construction in 1971 and was excavated throughout the next 15 years. A mosaic floor excavated from the Villa, was mounted on a wall overlooking Queens’ Court in Central Milton Keynes in September 1977.

Bancroft was one of eight large farming estates created 2,000 years ago in the city area, each centered around a Roman Villa – in Milton Keynes Village, Stantonbury, Wymbush, Walton, Dovecote Farm at Shenley Brook End, Bletchley’s Sherwood Drive and Holne Chase.

The Villa at Bancroft is the most extensive excavated of the Roman settlements in Milton Keynes and the archaeological dig revealed an underfloor heating system with a limestone open hearth, a bath suite, colonnaded verandas and porch, an ornamental walled garden with fish pond and a summer house.

Several interesting Roman artefacts were uncovered including Samian tableware, a board made from decorated limestone for a board game, silver-bronze brooches for fastening a toga, decorated hair combs and 1,000 coins were found in and around the site.

The outline of the Villa as it stands today shows the outline of the Villa and rooms which were found during the excavation of the 1970s and 1980s, MK Development Corporation decided to mark the Villa find this way to ensure future generations could appreciate the heritage underfoot.

This was the view from the main receiving room or hallway. Behind me is the main bedrooms and what was probably a storage room.
You know these people were posh because they had an ornamental fish pond in the walkway leading to the villa
The archeologists think that this was the bath room/house, which blows my mind. I aspire to this amount of luxury.
I could not get over the fact that these remains were also the neighborhood park. Families were out with kids and dogs, enjoying the first day of sunshine all week long.

Last but not least, this was the mosaic they found amongst the remains. It was originally displayed somewhere in the local mall but during “redevelopment” it was moved to the “guest services lounge.” Let’s be clear. It was moved to hallway leading to the public toilets.