Brading Roman Villa was a Roman courtyard villa which has been excavated and put on public display in Brading on the Isle of Wight. The Roman Empire contained many kinds of villas. ... The ancient Kynges Towne of Brading is the main town of the parish of the same name, which used to cover about a tenth of the Isle of Wight but now includes the town itself and Adgestone, Morton, Nunwell and other outlying areas between Ryde, St Helens, Bembridge, Sandown... The Isle of Wight is an English island and county, off the southern English coast, to the south of the county of Hampshire. ...
The first simple villa dates from the mid-1st century but, over the next hundred years, it developed into a large and impressive stone-built villa around three sides of a central courtyard. Its luxurious rooms contain many fine Roman mosaics. The 1st century was that century which lasted from 1 to 100 according the Gregorian calendar. ... Mosaic is the art of decoration with small pieces of colored glass, stone or other material. ...
BradingRomanVilla - one of the most important sites of its kind in western Europe - could be re-buried under tons of dirt if the Oglander Roman Trust that runs it cannot find £625,000 before the autumn.
BradingRomanVilla trustee and former IW county archaeologist Dr David Tomalin believes that if the villa cannot be protected, the only way to secure its survival and avoid climatic devastation is re-burial.
BradingRomanVilla has some of the finest mosaics in western Europe and Dr Tomalin said it could be seen as the birthplace of the Island's art and culture.
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