A remarkable Roman villa complex has been unearthed during construction at our site in Grove, Oxfordshire

A remarkable Roman villa complex has been unearthed during construction at our Brookside Meadows site in Grove, Oxfordshire.

The site sits on a landscape inhabited since the Bronze Age and includes a villa complex richly decorated with painted plaster and mosaics. There is even a monumental hall-like 'aisled building'.

The artefact-rich site was long-lived, with Roman activity extending from the 1st or 2nd centuries into the late 4th or perhaps even the early 5th century AD.

Campbell Gregg, Managing Director of Barratt and David Wilson Homes Southern, said: "It's remarkable to think that we are simply the latest in a line of people who have established a community on this site, dating back such a long way.

"It's been fantastic to work with Red River Archaeology Group in the early stages of Brookside Meadows to develop the local historical understanding and heritage."

On all our developments we work with archaeologists in the early stages of building to allow experts to carry out excavations in sites of interest. Not only is this a key part of a site's progress, it enables local communities to find out valuable historical information and intriguing finds from the past on their doorstep.