BBCNEWS The Travel Show November 26, 2021 02:31:00
Of a much bigger roman villa complex from the third or fourth centuries. excavations were carried out this summer in a farmer's field in rutland, but the discovery was made in 2020 by the farmer's son, jim irvine. it was amazing, really. i mean, the level of preservation. he found some pottery fragments, then checked satellite imagery and noticed the outline of what looked like ancient buildings. and this is the the mosaics in this section, all of this... so the family came back on a sunny day with some spades and started digging. you can only tell so much from a map and from some crop marks. ...