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An Account of the Excavation of the remains of a Boman 

 Villa near Collingham. — By William Procter, Esq., 

 M. R. C. S., Hon. Sec. to the Yorkshire Antiquarian 

 Club. 



The object of the present paper is to furnish some account of 

 the examination of a portion of the remains of a Roman Villa 

 not far from Thorparch, and which has had for its jesult the 

 addition of some most valuable and interesting objects to the 

 Antiquarian department of the Museum of the Yorkshire 

 Philosophical Society. 



The site of the villa is about three quarters of a mile south 

 of the high road from Tadcaster to Harewood, and three miles 

 from Boston Spa, in a field belonging to the farm at Compton 

 in the parish of Collingham, known by the name of Dalton 

 Parlours. The situation is on a rising ground of considerable 

 elevation, and the prospect from the summit is extensive and 

 commanding. Before the enclosure, this field formed part of 

 Clifford Moor, and here, in a copse of hazels and brushwood, 

 were the remains of walls, from which circumstance it derived its 

 former name. Abbey field. The stones composing these remains 

 were removed about the year 1806, to furnish materials for the 

 building of some out-houses at Compton. The Abbey field is 

 now tilled and known as Dalton Parlours, and at various periods 

 up to the present time, coins, tiles and other remains of Roman 

 occupation have been ploughed up. Of these objects thus 

 found from time to time scarcely any notice was taken until the 

 last spring, when several gentlemen of the neighbourhood, 

 especially the Rev. B. Eamanson, of Collingham, and F. Carroll, 

 Esq., of Thorparch, determined to examine the site. By invita- 

 tion from these gentlemen several members of the Yorkshire 

 Philosophical Society visited the remains ; which were found 

 to be of so interesting a character as to lead them to make a 

 report to the Council, which induced that body to continue the 

 excavations, and it is to be greatly regretted that the state of the 

 crops has compelled the Society — not to stop it is to be hoped— 



