be Aesculapius. In 1978 Jocelyn Toynbee identified it as a Genius loci statue, a pre-Christian Roman religious item, assumed to be from the nearby villa complex. The church walls contain a number of Roman dressed stones and tiles amongst the medieval masonry. See also List of Roman villas in England References External links Tockenham Parish Council Tockenham Village Tockenham at Wiltshire Community History Tockenham, St Giles at achurchnearyou.com Villages in Wiltshire Civil parishes in Wiltshire