page_title: St Laurence School
section_title: Roman villa remains
hierarchical_section_title: St Laurence School / Roman villa remains
caption_attribution_description: English: Roman Villa Bradford on Avon
context_page_description: St Laurence School is a secondary school in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England. It became an Academy in August 2011.
  Besides Bradford on Avon, the school takes pupils from Atworth, Monkton Farleigh, Winsley, Limpley Stoke, South Wraxall, Bradford Leigh and Trowbridge. It is situated in the northwest of the town, off the road towards Little Ashley.
context_section_description: Aerial photographs and minor archaeological excavations in 1976 indicated the presence of the remains of a Roman Villa underneath the school's sports fields. A more major excavation in 2003 uncovered Roman era floor mosaics and walls once belonging to this villa, along with a stone structure believed to have once been part of an early Christian baptistery.
caption: Romain mosaic revealed in excavations
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