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Roman Villas in England

Romano-British Villas have often been compared to English stately homes of the eighteenth-century. Roman country residences, certainly many that were built in the 3rd or 4th centuries CE, were large, opulent and obviously the homes of wealthy and powerful individuals. The architecture and art in the villas were signs of the social importance of these individuals. These residences included such features as columns and balustrades and were extravagantly decorated with mosaic floors, wall-paintings and marble statuary. One of the earliest of these palatial villas can be seen just outside of Chichester. Not all the Romano-British villas were this palatial, the vast majority were much smaller homesteads that were more modestly decorated.

Romano-British Villas in England

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Museums Worth Visiting

Corinium Museum

An award-wining museum in the centre of Cirencester that displays the archaeology of the Cotswolds. From Prehistoric, Stone Age tools to Roman mosaics, from Anglo Saxon grave goods to Medieval sculpture. The museum takes its name from what the Roman called Cirencester. As the second largest town in Roman Britain, the Corinium Museum has one of the largest and finest collections of Roman antiquities in England, in particular an exquisite collection of 4th century CE mosaic floors.

The London Museum - Opening 2026

The Museum of London at the Wall closed its doors to the public in December 2022. It opened to the public in 1976. The museum will open again in 2026, in a new location and with a new name: the London Museum in West Smithfield, not far from the Wall site. The new location allows for a greater part of the museum’s 7 million+ objects to be displayed. The museum will continue to cover all aspects of London’s story, from 450,000 BC to the present.

Verulamium Museum

Built on the site of one of Roman Britain’s largest cities, the Verulamium Museum was established to house Iron Age and Roman finds excavated by Sir Mortimer Wheeler and his wife. Today the museum is considered one of the best Roman museums in England. Highlights of the museum’s exhibits include some of the finest mosaic floors and rare fragments of painted wall plaster. Highlights on display in the museum include the bronze statuette known as the Verulamium Venus and the Sandridge Hoard of 159 Roman coins.