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
A Sampling of Some Medieval Byzantine Processional Crosses
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Very often when one thinks of 'Byzantine art' we naturally tend to jump in
our thoughts towards the beautiful icons found on wood panelled boards but,
hist...
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