Second Roman-era Mosaic Found in U.K. Farmer's Field

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November 29, 2022

And the dig hits just keep on coming.

Archaeologists have found another mosaic in a United Kingdom farmer's field, in the same place as the 2020 discovery of a mosaic depicting an iconic scene from The Iliad.

At the site, in the East Midlands county of Rutland, Historic England archaeologists have also found the remains of a large hall that officials say was once a wooden barn and was converted to a stone hall sometime in the 3rd or 4th Century A.D. At one end of the hall, the dig team found evidence of an area devoted to craft work. The other end of the hall is thought to have been a living area, complete with a Roman-style bath (which, in this case, contained a laconicum (hot room) and a frigidarium (cold room). Further, the archaeologists found evidence of heating ducts in the walls and an underfloor heating system, perhaps powered in part by a water tank just outside the building.

Rutland mosaic

The first mosaic is on the floor of a large villa. The mosaic depicts Achilles and Hector fighting during the epic struggle that many historians say helped define the course of Mediterranean civilization. The team continued excavations at the site and found remains of stone columns and bits of marble and plaster. Also found was a second mosaic, in what is thought to have been an area used for dining and entertaining. The second mosaic features an intricate geometric pattern.

Rutland is a county in the East Midlands of England, about 100 miles north of London, nearly equidistant west to east between Leicester and Peterborough.

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