If attending please assemble in the car park at Hill Holt Wood before 2pm. Then a short walk to “Roman Villa corner” of the wood to view the interpretation board there about the villa for some background to the tour.

The walk will then be over fields. Please wear sensible and appropriate footwear and clothing for the conditions. The walk is approximately 2.6km to Brills Farm and back.

The walk will take in the field to the east of the Roman villa, the field to the south of the villa, which was the location of this year’s archaeological excavation of an Iron Age enclosure feature. 

You will learn about the discovery and the excavation of the Roman villa in 1934/5

From there the walk continues down Folly Lane, past where a Wellington Bomber crashed in June 1950.

The last part of the tour goes across the large hay field of Brills Farm to take in the Iron Age archaeology there, as well as the archaeology surrounding the site looking out to the Fosse Way and Newark from Potter Hill.

Potter Hill was made famous by a sketch of William Stukeley, the famous Lincolnshire antiquarian and early archaeologist who in September 1722 drew a sketch of the landscape and described Potter Hill as being the site of a Roman pottery.

You will also be able to view from a distance the base of the Lancaster Bomber sculpture being built by the Bomber County Gateway Trust

We then return to Hill Holt Wood via the same route.