Grimstock Hill Romano-British settlement
Vanished settlement · United Kingdom
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 52.512, -1.714
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: The site included a temple complex with evidence of a circular wooden Iron Age temple, later replaced by a stone-built temples of the Roman period, developed in two phases.
History
Grimstock Hill, located north of the River Cole in Coleshill, Warwickshire, was the site of a Romano-British settlement discovered in 1978. The site included a temple complex with evidence of a circular wooden Iron Age temple, later replaced by a stone-built temples of the Roman period, developed in two phases. A settlement extending at least 450 metres (1,480 ft) was excavated to the south, with evidence including a bathhouse, ovens, ditches and walls.