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Post by wellway on Apr 17, 2016 6:45:46 GMT
The remains of a Roman Villa have been discovered when the homeowner wanted to lay electric cables to an old barn. Seems it is a very interesting site belonging to a high status family. Discoveries include a mosaic floor and the stone planter used for flowers by the current homeowner was a Roman child's coffin. The site is about fourteen miles from Stonehenge. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-36062538 |
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Post by miominmio on Apr 17, 2016 8:18:13 GMT
How cool! (I love history and archeology)
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Post by BarbaraUK on Apr 17, 2016 8:23:02 GMT
What a fantastic discovery, not only a mosaic but coins, brooches, pots and lots of other finds! Even after 1500 years the mosaic looks amazing.
Do hope they have got film footage of the dig and it will make it in to a programme soon.
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Post by M in Carolina on Apr 17, 2016 8:24:32 GMT
That is so cool! Thanks for sharing.
I have a friend who's father had a tile company that specialized in expensive custom designs, etc. It is really difficult work now, I can't imagine how much time and effort it took to do the mosaics back then. I've seen some up close in museums that are made up of teeny tiny chips and are perfectly laid.
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Post by anniebygaslight on Apr 17, 2016 8:30:33 GMT
How fascinating. I love this sort of stuff. Any programmes about history and archeology and I'm in!
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Post by BarbaraUK on Apr 17, 2016 9:04:29 GMT
That is so cool! Thanks for sharing. I have a friend who's father had a tile company that specialized in expensive custom designs, etc. It is really difficult work now, I can't imagine how much time and effort it took to do the mosaics back then. I've seen some up close in museums that are made up of teeny tiny chips and are perfectly laid. Yes, the Romans were experts in beautifully laid mosaics, amongst other things......mosaic floors were common across the Roman Empire in official and private buildings and lots of them survive today across the UK and Europe. Most of the damage done to them has been caused by them being ploughed up or dug through during the centuries following the end of the Roman Empire, rather than them just disintegrating, but there are still a lot of large ones intact at sites and they are fascinating to see! There are some beautiful examples almost 2000 years old in Roman buildings in my part of England and I love to go there to see them and walk along the Roman Wall.  |
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Post by anniefb on Apr 17, 2016 9:10:44 GMT
How cool! (I love history and archeology) Me too  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2016 9:23:52 GMT
A priceless discovery indeed. We are so fortunate in this country that we have so so much history and continue to discover all these sites and artifacts. I find it all so very interesting. I do hope so BarbaraUK |
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Post by M in Carolina on Apr 17, 2016 9:38:53 GMT
That is so cool! Thanks for sharing. I have a friend who's father had a tile company that specialized in expensive custom designs, etc. It is really difficult work now, I can't imagine how much time and effort it took to do the mosaics back then. I've seen some up close in museums that are made up of teeny tiny chips and are perfectly laid. Yes, the Romans were experts in beautifully laid mosaics, amongst other things......mosaic floors were common across the Roman Empire in official and private buildings and lots of them survive today across the UK and Europe. Most of the damage done to them has been caused by them being ploughed up or dug through during the centuries following the end of the Roman Empire, rather than them just disintegrating, but there are still a lot of large ones intact at sites and they are fascinating to see! There are some beautiful examples almost 2000 years old in Roman buildings in my part of England and I love to go there to see them and walk along the Roman Wall. I think that's so cool. They really put a lot of time and effort into everything they did. I love Roman and Greek history and architecture and watch a lot of documentaries. Even the cheapest brothels were well constructed and beautiful--the women had small chambers with a raised stone bed that they used as a bed frame and would put thick feather beds on top. The ruins of Pompeii are so awesome. They show how much the Romans decorated and the care they took in everything. They even did intricate erotic mosaics in the red light district. Even the baths and toilets are beautiful and intricately decorated. I wish people took even half the effort in creating stuff these days. Quantity over quality. I've seen a piece of a Roman road--the friend of my high school French teacher that we stayed with in France took us sightseeing in her area for a couple of days. There was a Roman road in the woods on this stretch of road we took, so she pulled over and showed us. We also went to this Medieval castle that had been built around a Roman fort. There were walls still standing--with no mortar. I picked up a little rock that was in the gravel walkway that was the same kind of stone as the wall. My dad thought the little pebble was cooler than the Waterman pen I got him. He just couldn't believe he was handling something that a Roman stonemason had handled. He loved history, and in the US, not much of our stuff is that old. People don't care as much as preserving it, either. |
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Post by peasapie on Apr 17, 2016 11:29:52 GMT
That is fascinating. Reminds me of pompeii with the tile work on the floor. I wonder if the family had to move from the site.
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Post by jayfab on Apr 17, 2016 14:23:00 GMT
That is so cool. Thanks for posting.
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Post by mellyw on Apr 17, 2016 16:53:57 GMT
Thanks for sharing. Truly hope they make a program about it that we'll get here in the U.S.
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Post by lucyg on Apr 17, 2016 20:09:17 GMT
 Thanks for the heads up. I love this stuff.
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Thanks for the heads up. I love this stuff.