Low Ham

infobox UK place
country = England
latitude= 51.0600
longitude= -2.8110
scale= 10000
official_name= Low Ham
population=
shire_district= South Somerset
shire_county = Somerset
region= South West England
constituency_westminster= Somerton & Frome
post_town= Langport
postcode_district = TA10 9
postcode_area= TA
dial_code= 01458
os_grid_reference= ST432292

Low Ham is a village in the civil parish of High Ham in the English county of Somerset.

At the time of the Domesday Book Low Ham was part of the estate of Serlo de Burcy, and was later known as Ham Burcy and Nether Ham. [cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=15109#s9 |title=Low Ham Manors |accessdate=2007-11-23 |format= |work=British History Online ]

Roman Villa

There is evidence of occupation from Roman times with a large Roman Villa which was excavated in 1946. The bath block contained a 4th century mosaic showing the story of Aeneas and Dido. It is the earliest piece of narrative art in the country and is a unique find from Roman Britain. [cite web | title=The Low Ham Roman Mosaic | work=Somerset Museum | url=http://www.somerset.gov.uk/somerset/culturecommunity/museums/somersetcollection/lowhamromanmosaic/ | accessdate=2006-08-11]

Church

English Heritage list a church, without dedication to any saint, on the site of an earlier church, which was started in the early 17th century, and damaged in the Civil War, and completed in 1690. It is a grade I listed building. [cite web | title=Church without Dedication | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?id=263114 | accessdate=2007-10-03]

ite of Special Scientific Interest

Infobox SSSI


name=Low Ham
aos=Somerset
interest=Geological
gridref=gbmappingsmall|ST440290
area=5 hectare
notifydate=1988

http://www.natureonthemap.org.uk/map.aspx?
] The Low Ham SSSI at gbmapping|ST440290, lies on lowest slopes of Woodbirds Hill in the adjoining civil parish of Pitney, just above the Low Ham Rhyme. It is a 12.4 acre (5 hectare) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset, notified in 1988. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

This site contains a Pleistocene sedimentary sequence of sands, silts and peats, laid down in the Early Devensian. The site forms a rare example of deposits of 'interstadial' facies associated with a high sea level; these are of critical importancefor British Pleistocene geology. [cite web | title=Low Ham SSSI citation sheet | work=English Nature | url=http://www.english-nature.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1003392.pdf | accessdate=2006-08-11]

References

External links

* [http://www.english-nature.org.uk English Nature website] (SSSI information)