{"id":554,"date":"2025-12-22T20:37:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dursleyhc.org.uk\/?p=554"},"modified":"2025-12-22T20:38:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:38:49","slug":"cam-villa-excavation-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dursleyhc.org.uk\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"Cam Villa excavation &#8211; new book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Not long ago an exciting discovery was made off Box Road in Cam, when the remains of a Roman Villa were found during an archaeological survey prior to construction of a new housing development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"644\" height=\"637\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dursleyhc.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cam_villa_booklet_v2-644x637.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-555 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dursleyhc.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cam_villa_booklet_v2-644x637.jpg 644w, https:\/\/www.dursleyhc.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cam_villa_booklet_v2-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dursleyhc.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cam_villa_booklet_v2-768x759.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dursleyhc.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cam_villa_booklet_v2-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.dursleyhc.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cam_villa_booklet_v2-222x220.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.dursleyhc.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cam_villa_booklet_v2.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>With local support the remains of the villa were saved, though they have now been covered again, to protect them for for future generations. Dursley Heritage Centre has just received a stock of booklets about the discovery which give a great overview of the site, its history and the finds that were uncovered during the dig. It&#8217;s been professionally written by the archaeology company responsible for the excavation, it&#8217;s all colour with lots of images and is now available for sale at \u00a36 per copy.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not long ago an exciting discovery was made off Box Road in Cam, when the remains of a Roman Villa were found during an archaeological survey prior to construction of a new housing development. With local support the remains of the villa were saved, though they have now been covered again, to protect them for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dursleyhc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dursleyhc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dursleyhc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dursleyhc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dursleyhc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dursleyhc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/www.dursleyhc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dursleyhc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dursleyhc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dursleyhc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}