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Fishbourne Roman Palace in Chichester Fishbourne Roman Palace, the highest ranking Sussex landmark, was built in 75AD on the site of a Roman supply compound. As the largest Roman residential site in Britain, it provides an insight into Roman Britain and contains a large collection of mosaic work. Evidence suggests that in the late third century, Fishbourne was destroyed by a fire, leaving only the palace walls standing. Left beyond repair, the site was never rebuilt, with its remains lying lost and forgotten until their discovery in the 1960s. Today, the palace is run by the charity Sussex Past and is open to tourists. ....
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Published: 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. Advertisement 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. ....