Most of the Roman villas found by archaeologists are in the south of England. The governor of Britain had a palace in London. Another palace was beside the sea, at Fishbourne (near Chichester in ...

The extraordinary colonia, founded by Roman soldiers between the 2nd and 3rd centuries, yielded several remarkable ...

The interiors of Roman villas were often lavishly decorated with painted walls and mosaic floors, and examples are found across the Roman Empire including Britain. Brading Roman Villa on the Isle ...

“The area is now understood to have been a well-managed Roman agricultural landscape, dotted with farms and high-status villas in the hinterland of Glevum (Roman Gloucester), a colonia founded for ...

But by the date of this proclamation Britain had of course ceased to be a part of the Roman Empire. The villa at Hinton St Mary had probably long been abandoned, and so its floor remained untouched.