Sparsholt Roman Villa

Nothing is visible at the site today, but finds from the excavations are on display in Winchester City Museum, and one wing of the villa has been reconstructed at Butser Ancient Farm.

[1] It may initially have been undivided internally, but by 200 AD it had been replaced by an aisled house with living rooms and a bath suite at one end.

[4] This incorporated material plundered from the earlier buildings, but nothing distinctively post-Roman or early Saxon has been found on the site.

On display in Winchester City Museum is a near-intact 4th-century geometric mosaic taken from the aisled building.

[6] Also on display in the museum is a fresco containing a female portrait within a tondo, which may show the mistress of the house.

Sparsholt Villa mosaic in Winchester City Museum