The Rutland Roman Villa Project with Jennifer Browning
Jennifer Browning from ULAS talks on The Rutland Roman Villa Project. This is the first chance to hear about one of the most exciting excavations since the discovery of Richard III, an extraordinary Roman mosaic discovered beneath a field in Rutland. The mosaic is the first example in the UK displaying scenes from Homer’s The Illiad, and one of only a handful from across Europe. It is considered one of the most remarkable and significant Roman mosaics ever found in Britain.
This talk was recorded live for the Leicestershire Fieldworkers on 02/12/2021. The Q&A session is hosted by Peter Liddle, Chair of the Leicestershire Fieldworkers.
Find out more about the mosaic here ulasnews.com/2021/11/25/encou...
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This is so interesting, thank you so much. Now the news is out, I saw it on the BBC today How exciting.
It always boggles my mind that the Roman’s pulled out of Britain 400 years before the Vikings came. Romano-Britain seems closer to us in many ways than the medieval period.
Thank you for such an informative and enjoyable talk. The Iliad mosaics are wonderful and it was fascinating to see them in context of the other discoveries on site. Congratulations to everyone involved in the project! Very much look forward to hearing more as your work continues.
Thankyou for a very interesting talk. I look forward to hearing more after there has been time for analysis.
Great work - thank you.
Thank you very much. That's been so interesting and I look forward to the next chapters.
Very interesting. I wonder if those who came after were living in the ruins or just camping there. Did they do so with respect for the previous occupants or indifference? Date of burials will be interesting... wondering how long after the end of occupation. The two lines of post holes or columns in the east and south end look like those structures are sort of aligned with each other but not so much with the rest of the site. I wonder if they are earlier. So many questions to enjoy answering for years. Thanks for the presentation... it was excellent.
Could the mosaic in the collapsed hypercourse area be the tiled floor just falling in?
Not wise to schedule it, should of moved the mosaic to a museum, You got lucky there in my oppinion as a lot of farmers would of destroyed the evidence on fear of having their farm scheduled and potential loss of future lucrative building permission and land devaluation . Saving one might of destroyed two others. These museums could build a steel structured mezzanine floor to display them or create a cut out in the concrete floor in a museum and put thick glass over the top so visitors can walk over it.