Roman villa complex found in Rutland farmer's field

[Imperial Dave]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-59391650

another good find

[Erpingham]

So, what do we think?  Are they dogfighting or ramming? 

It's interesting that the artist delivers some quite decent horses but his chariot drawing is all over the place.  I wonder if his pattern book had chariots and naked heroic figures but not naked heroic figures fighting chariots, so he had to improvise?

[Imperial Dave]

or had too much Falernian....

[Duncan Head]

It's a nice one, even if the artist wasn't sure what he was doing.

Also https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/nov/25/archaeologists-examine-roman-villa-discovered-beneath-rutland-farmers-field but I don't think it adds much to the BBC version.

[Imperial Dave]

got carried away I suspect

[Aetius]

Here is the story as we got it over the pond...

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/rare-roman-mosaic-found-on-farm-in-remarkable-discovery/ar-AAR7Qy6?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

John

[Imperial Dave]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/26/roman-britain-heritage-rutland-villa

follow up article

[Erpingham]

This link in the article takes you to the university website with a lot more pictures of the mosaic. 

[Imperial Dave]

thanks Anthony

[Duncan Head]

And another article - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/nov/28/rutlands-roman-mosaics-bring-the-trojan-wars-to-life-in-the-east-midlands