The caption for this 1884 illustration reads: Pavement and remains found at recently discovered Roman Villa at Brading on Isle of Wight. They are: Top left—first portion discovered; Top right: summer; Middle left: Orpheus; Middle: Perseus and Andromeda; Middle right: Two corners of the square of the western section of the Reception Room, Winter and Spring; Bottom left: foundation stones of the arch separarting the two sections of the reception room; Bottom top: bones of the dwarf wild ox (extinct animal), piece of the horn of a stag, and a roman mail; Bottom bottom: the astrologer. Brading Rom
The caption for this 1884 illustration reads: Pavement and remains found at recently discovered Roman Villa at Brading on Isle of Wight. They are: Top left—first portion discovered; Top right: summer; Middle left: Orpheus; Middle: Perseus and Andromeda; Middle right: Two corners of the square of the western section of the Reception Room, Winter and Spring; Bottom left: foundation stones of the arch separarting the two sections of the reception room; Bottom top: bones of the dwarf wild ox (extinct animal), piece of the horn of a stag, and a roman mail; Bottom bottom: the astrologer. Brading Roman Villa was a Roman courtyard villa which has been excavated and put on public display in Brading on the Isle of Wight. In 1879, a farmer called Mr Munns struck a buried mosaic floor while making holes on his land for a sheep pen. Captain Thorp of Yarbridge, who was in the area looking for Roman antiquities, helped Mr Munns uncover the Gallus panel the next day. By spring 1880, all of the site on Mr Munns' land had been excavated, which was half the villa; the remainder lay in the Oglander estate. The villa dates to the first century AD.
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