Ifold Roman Villa

A Romano-British potenate built a fine villa on the spur at Ifold (where today stands the splendid Cotswold farm house of that name). He fortified himself against our Cotswold winters with central heating and hot baths - heated by a most effiecient furnace. He bought red floor tiles which were stamped as baked in Gloucester, and he roofed it with six-sided red sandstone tiles from Dean Forest. One room had a fine mosaic floor. Fragments of the window glass anda splendid double-handed decanter have been found there. Unfortunately there is nothing to be seen at the site now.
This Roman family with the Celtic servants cleared off forest and farmed the land at Ifold and towards Spoonbed.