{"id":695667,"date":"2026-01-14T15:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/695667\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T15:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:45:12","slug":"port-talbots-pompeii-astonishing-roman-villa-discovered-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/695667\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Port Talbot&#8217;s Pompeii&#8217;: Astonishing Roman villa discovered in Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8216;Port Talbot&#8217;s Pompeii&#8217;: Astonishing Roman villa discovered in Wales. Welsh archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a major Roman villa that\u2019s being dubbed \u2018Port Talbot\u2019s Pompeii\u2019. The discovery was made by ArchaeoMargam, a partnership between Swansea University\u2019s Centre for Heritage Research and Training (CHART), Neath Port Talbot Council and Margam Abbey Church. Researchers identified the remains after geophysical surveys carried out by Llandough-based company Terradat revealed the outline of a large and well-preserved Roman villa complex. Project lead Dr Alex Langlands, associate professor and co-director of CHART, said: \u201cThis is an amazing discovery. \u201cWe always thought that we\u2019d find something dating to the Romano-British period, but we never dreamed it would be so clearly articulated and with so much potential in terms of what it can tell us about the elusive first millennium AD here in South Wales.\u201d Initial analysis suggests the villa sat within a defended enclosure measuring about 43 metres by 55 metres. Archaeologists believe this may relate to an earlier Iron Age settlement or reflect insecurity in the later Roman period. A large aisled structure to the south-east of the villa has also been identified. Researchers say it could have been an agricultural building or possibly linked to later, post-Roman use of the site. Alongside the surveys, ArchaeoMargam has carried out excavations on land to the west of Margam Abbey Church, engaging more than 900 people, including school pupils and young archaeologists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Port Talbot&#8217;s Pompeii&#8217;: Astonishing Roman villa discovered in Wales. Welsh archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a major Roman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,209862,4884,14700,209863,103170,81313,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-695667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-geophysical-surveys","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-neath-port-talbot-council","12":"tag-pompeii","13":"tag-port-talbot","14":"tag-roman-villa","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115894230977063727","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}