Brislington Community Museum


Tesserae



Tesserae
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These large tesserae would have been part of a pattern in a Roman floor mosaic, and were crafted from the type of pennant sandstone that underlies much of Brislington (dating to the Carboniferous Period, some 310 million years ago).

Found at Brislington Roman villa site during the development of what is now Winchester Road in December 1899. The villa is contemporary with several others in the region, built about AD 270 as a working farm with workshops until destroyed by fire about AD 370.

Photographs exhibited with kind permission of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, which has this in its collection (reference number Fb7133).

Material: stone

Period: Romano-British

Find spot: Winchester Road, Brislington. ST 616709

Exhibit contributed by Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

Text written by Dawn Witherspoon (2012) & Ken Taylor (2017)

Photographer: Ken Taylor

Acquisition number: 120316c9





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