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December 10, 2020 at 10:01 am
Just west of Chichester on the West Sussex coast, Fishbourne Roman Palace is the largest residential building from Roman times to be found in Britain. It was stumbled upon by accident in 1960 when the excavation equipment of a Portsmouth Water Company workman, digging a trench in a local field, hit some rubble. But this was not any old rubble; the rocks ultimately turned out to be part of the boundary wall of a huge Roman structure.
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The site from Roman Britain drew archaeologists from across the world to assist with the dig for the next decade. But as impressive as the scale of the palace was, the real revelation was the brilliance and proliferation of the site’s mosaics. Two hundred separate examples were unearthed, many of which had been perfectly preserved for nearly two millennia.