num_pages: 291
description: Brading Roman Villa is a fine example of a maritime courtyard villa with in situ mosaics which rank among the best of their kind in northern Europe. It was originally excavated in the 1880s. This volume reports on a new programme of excavations carried out in 2008-10 whilst also delving into earlier work to provide context. The research involved a full re-excavation of the North Range an examination of the buildings of the South Range by sample excavations a detailed study of the extant remains of the West Range to establish the building sequence and a sample excavation of the early enclosures identified by geophysical survey to the east of the North Range.Barry Cunliffe's excavations at Brading Roman Villa on the Isle of Wight has been nominated for the 2014 Current Archaeology Research Project of the Year.
language: English
title: The Roman Villa at Brading, Isle of Wight: The Excavations of 2008-10
publisher: Oxford University School of Archaeology