Excavations at Beddington have uncovered a long occupation sequence
which includes Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age fields, a Late Iron Age
enclosed settlement and early Roman finds. A villa was established at
the site in the late 2nd century AD and included a house, bathhouse and
five other buildings, two of which were barns, although there was no
direct evidence of crop or livestock production. In the late 3rd century
AD wings were added to the house, the bathhouse was modified and the
barns were replaced by a large aisled structure. Unlike many other villa
sites there is no evidence for continued occupation in the post-Roman to
early Saxon period.