Bucknowle Farm
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Bucknowle Farm is the site of a Romano-British settlement and a Roman villa, located 1 km (0.62 mi) southeast of Church Knowle and 1 km (0.62 mi) southwest of Corfe Castle village in Dorset, England (grid reference SY95368146). It is about 7 km (4.3 mi) south of Wareham and approximately 9 km (5.6 mi) west of Swanage in the heart of the Isle of Purbeck.
A number of Romano-British sites have been discovered and studied on the Isle of Purbeck. The Romano-British villa complex found at Bucknowle Farm is the first substantial villa to be found south of the Purbeck Hills.[1] It was excavated between 1976 and 1991.
The first signs to its existence were unearthed in 1975 as fragments of pottery were found in a field.[2][3] The excavations, that subsequently lasted until the summer of 1991, conclusively revealed a complex of domestic and farmstead buildings. Moreover, beneath these, a more complicated system of Iron Age and early Roman Age habitation was uncovered.[4]
There is a camping site within the grounds of Bucknowle Farm.[5]