Clanville
The Roman villa here, 5.5 km NW of Andover, excavated in 1894, consisted of a roughly rectangular walled enclosure (45 x 60 m) with buildings on its N, E, and W sides. The buildings on the N and E (54 x 9.9 m and 33 x 12 m respectively) were subdivided into several rooms but appear to have been of simple construction. That on the W, however, was an aisled building (28.8 x 15.6 m), subsequently divided into 12 rooms, several of which were provided with tesselated floors and one with a mosaic. Walls projecting from the N and S sides of the enclosure indicate that further structures remain to be discovered, perhaps including the main dwelling house.
The dates of the building and modification of the villa were not worked out, but the coins, apart from two of Domitian and one of Marcus, were all of the period 250-350. Though the site lies 3-4 km from any known Roman road, the finds included an inscription to Carinus (RIB 98), apparently part of a milestone and presumably brought here for reuse as building stone.
BIBLIOGRAPHYG. H. Engleheart, Archaeologia 56 (1898) 2-6; VCH Hampshire I (1900) 295-97; J. T. Smith, “Romano-British Aisled Houses,” ArchJ 120 (1963) 1-30.
A.L.F. RIVET