Roman Mosaics of Britain: South-West BritainRoman Mosaics of Britain is the culmination of more than seventy years of combined research and meticulous draughtsmanship by the authors, who are both in the forefront of mosaic scholarship. Their work, to be published in four volumes, is a complete illustrated catalogue of every known Romano-British mosaic - nearly 2000 in all - of which almost 450 feature in Volume II. Presented in the form of a county gazetteer, each mosaic is described, with drawings, photographs of figured elements and references. In many cases, the entry is illustrated by one of the authors' detailed paintings, which are faithful to the colour and composition of each mosaic. This volume contains some of the finest Romano-British mosaics ever uncovered. The South West has Britain's greatest concentration of figured mosaics, including, at Hinton St Mary, one of the earliest depictions of Christ. Several pavements illustrate scenes from Virgil's Aeneid or Ovid's Metamorphosis . As well as the organisation of the craft, the history of mosaic discoveries, building types, room function, figured work and schemes are considered. Each county has its own detailed introduction. |
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... bath - suite were uncovered . The area of the bath - suite was again examined in 1870 by Capt J S Swann . Excavations by S Pollard between 1969 and 1971 revealed a multi - phased site first inhabited in the Iron Age ( Pollard 1974 ) . A ...
... bath - suite were uncovered . The area of the bath - suite was again examined in 1870 by Capt J S Swann . Excavations by S Pollard between 1969 and 1971 revealed a multi - phased site first inhabited in the Iron Age ( Pollard 1974 ) . A ...
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... bath - suite . Although its excavation was not reported in detail , the villa at Hemsworth seems to have had an elaborate bath - suite ; Mosaic 171.3 from that site is the only known example in Dorset of a mosaic decorating a cold plunge - ...
... bath - suite . Although its excavation was not reported in detail , the villa at Hemsworth seems to have had an elaborate bath - suite ; Mosaic 171.3 from that site is the only known example in Dorset of a mosaic decorating a cold plunge - ...
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... bath- suite were converted into a single room , which was paved with Mosaic 248.5 . Not long after AD 360 the third - century barn to the north , close to the river , was converted into residential accommodation by the construction of a ...
... bath- suite were converted into a single room , which was paved with Mosaic 248.5 . Not long after AD 360 the third - century barn to the north , close to the river , was converted into residential accommodation by the construction of a ...
Contents
History of discoveries | 6 |
Figured pavements | 15 |
Organization of the craft | 21 |
Copyright | |
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apse Archaeol Natur Hist band Bath bath-suite blue blue-grey and white border building cantharus central centre chequers Cirencester Colliton Park colours Combe St Nicholas corner craftsmen dark blue-grey dark grey Dewlish Dorchester Dorset Dorset County Museum Dorset Natur Hist double fillet Durnovarian Group east excavated Fifehead Neville Figure flanked floor Found fourth century fragment Frampton Halstock Haverfield 1906 Hemsworth Hinton St Mary Hist Archaeol Soc hypocaust Ilchester interlaced squares Keynsham light blue-grey Lindinis line drawing Littlecote location of mosaics Lost Low Ham lozenges motifs Natur Hist Archaeol Newton St Loe octagons painting by SRC pale blue-grey pale grey pelta photographs Pitney Plan of villa porticus probably RCHM Reburied rectangles rectangular panel red and white REFERENCES right-angled Roman rows Saltire scheme side simple guilloche Smith Somerset South Somerset south-west stepped-triangles survived tessellated tesserae triangles villa showing location water-colour Wellow white ground white tesserae Wiltshire