Lyde Green Roman Villa, Emersons Green, South Gloucestershire

This excavation report presents the Roman villa and its surrounding landscape at Lyde Green, near Bristol, investigated in 2012–13. The site developed from a first-century farmstead into a villa estate by the later Roman period, and the excavations exposed substantial parts of its layout, including ancillary buildings, a bathhouse and evidence for sophisticated water management.

Alongside the stratigraphic account are specialist studies of pottery, building material, small finds, coinage, human remains and iron-working waste. Evidence for stock raising, crop processing, textile production and metalworking helps reconstruct the economy of the estate as well as its architecture. As a detailed site publication, the volume is best suited to readers of Roman Britain and field archaeology who want the evidence behind interpretations of rural settlement.