Before I was sharing ideas about the discovery of a fifth century mosaic at Chedworth I had come across an article online from Current Archaeology about the investigation of a villa site near Corby in Northamptonshire. In this case the estate boasted in its 1st to 3rd century phase a temple-mausoleum of some scale, and then in the 3rd to 4th century the abandoned tomb or worship site was reused to accommodate a substantial tile making complex. The article can be read at BUILDING A ROMAN VILLA
EXSULTET: some notes (1)
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piaculi ... pio cruore is nice little Latin pun which won't go into English
(?).patres nostros filios Israel educens de aegypto. I am glad that patres
nost...
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