Roman Villa

PEVSNER: ‘200 yards S of the castle mound. The villa consisted of seven rooms with front and rear corridor and bath house. One of the rooms had a tessellated floor. The site, which was excavated in 1955, is datable to c300- 500 A.D.’

In 1953, part of the tessellated floor of a Roman villa was discovered by the occupier of the newly built 12 Moot Close, who was apparently digging a hole for a new washing line. Mr A T Morley Hewitt of Fordingbridge, who had connections with the site of the villa at Rockbourne, carried out investigative works and the remainder of the site was excavated by the Ministry of Public Building and Works (Ancient Monuments Inspectorate) during 1955 and 1956.

Although part of the original site was inaccessible due to the railway to the east, the excavations covered most of the rear gardens from 5 to 12 Moot Close. Part of the floor of the Villa can now be seen in Salisbury Museum.

FOLLOWING LEFT HAND SIDE (from Northern junction with Moot lane)

Electricity Sub-Station

61 Moot Close

Former occupier: C Bundy (1964).

60 Moot Close

59 Moot Close

Former occupier: Mrs E M Harris (1964).

72 Moot Close

Former occupier: Mrs E M West (1964).

71 Moot Close

Former occupier: O Pidgley (1964).

1 Moot Close

Former occupier: Frederick Day (1964).

2 Moot Close

Former occupier: Bernard Moran (1964).

3 Moot Close

Former occupier: Mrs L E Sainsbury (1964).

4 Moot Close

Former occupier: R C James (1964).

5 Moot Close

6 Moot Close

Former occupier: M G Newton (1964).

7 Moot Close

Former occupier: Roland A H Crouch (1964).

8 Moot Close

Former occupier: W B Jones (1964).

9 Moot Close

Former occupier: Mrs H Hiscock (1964).

10 Moot Close

Former occupier: William E Parker (1964).

11 Moot Close

Former occupier: Edgar R Dorrington (1964).

12 Moot Close

Former occupier: Archibald E Wilson (1964).

13 Moot Close

Former occupier: William Churchill (1964).

14 Moot Close

Former occupier: Charles G Sainsbury (1964).

15 Moot Close

Former occupier: E V Easterbrook (1964).

16 Moot Close

Former occupier: Donald R Dorrington (1964).

17 Moot Close

Former occupier: D Vanderplank (1964).

18 Moot Close

Former occupier: Robert Skeates (1964).

19 Moot Close

Former occupier: Thomas J Mason (1964).

20 Moot Close

Former occupier: George J Pidgley (1964).

21 Moot Close

Former occupier: J T Kelly (1964).

22 Moot Close

Former occupier: M C Cox (1964).

23 Moot Close

Former occupier: R Henderson (1964).

24 Moot Close

Former occupier: Bertram Tanner (1964).

25 Moot Close

Former occupier: G Noble (1964).

26 Moot Close

Former occupier: Philip Andrews (1964).

- Here is the junction with Eastman Close -

35 Moot Close

Former occupier: W P Foreman (1964).

36 Moot Close

Former occupier: D G Webber (1964).

37 Moot Close

Former occupier: John Hibdidge (1964).

38 Moot Close

Former occupier: Ronald K Jackson (1964).

39 Moot Close

Former occupier: G W Ashwell (1964).

42 Moot Close

Former occupier: William C Poole (1964).

FOLLOWING RIGHT HAND SIDE (from Northern junction with Moot Lane)

56 Moot Close

Former occupier: Mrs G S Painter (1964).

58 Moot Close

Former occupier: Cyril J Hawkins (1964).

57 Moot Close

Former occupier: A H G Higgins (1964).

73 Moot Close

27 Moot Close

Former occupier: Fred Wrigley (1964).

28 Moot Close

Former occupier: R Musselwhite (1964).

29 Moot Close

Former occupier: Donald Morgan (1964).

30 Moot Close

Former occupier: Wyndham Glover (1964).

31 Moot Close

Former occupier: J Tanner (1964).

32 Moot Close

Former occupiers: Mrs L V Mamone (1964); Mrs M Pippet (1964).

33 Moot Close

Former occupier: W C Hollis (1964).

34 Moot Close

Former occupier: Mrs J Smith (1964).

41 Moot Close

Former occupier: P F Murtagh (1964).

40 Moot Close

Former occupier: R F Smith (1964).