UK's best ruins
Brading Roman Villa, Isle of Wight In 1879, a farmer, digging in his field, struck a mosaic of Bacchus. The gentleman archaeologist Captain Thorpe was called in, and he uncovered one of Britain's finest Roman sites. The big attraction of the villa – which started as a small house in the first century AD, but was extended over the next 100 years into a rather flashy pad – is the excellent mosaics. Five of the rooms have them, depicting Roman fables and characters. The site is still only partly excavated, and a new dig is due to begin this year, so who knows what else they'll find? More info:
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www.bradingromanvilla.org.uk
Images courtesy of www.britainonview.com. Isle of Wight photo courtesy of britainonview/Martin Brent
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