Gladiator fanzone
The back wall of the Roman building was subject to some vandalism by fans returning from the recent gladiatorial games at the amphitheatre at Charterhouse. As you can see from […]
Category Archives: Villa
Roundhouse and the lion’s paw
The reed thatch on the roundhouse is nearing completion. Rather thicker than they would probably have gone for in the Iron Age, as the whole building would only be expected […]
3 years work reduced to 6 minutes
For three years the hands on heritage volunteers have devoted Wednesdays to recreating a Roman mosaic floor in our winter dining room reconstruction. It was finally finished this October and […]
Can AI be used to create a Roman Mosaic floor?
In a World first, the magic of artificial intelligence was used to automate the laying of a reconstructed Roman mosaic floor. In the attached video you can see how the […]
How to lay a mosaic?
First make your tesserae -in our case cubes of local stone and tile that were roughly 13mm square when viewed from above. For our room we made 140,000 of five […]
The final tessera
After 3 years and 140,000 tesserae, the Roman mosaic is finally finished. A great achievement by a dedicated and talented group of volunteers who have created a real work of […]
Animal magic
Our mosaic animals have had a make over. Whatley the elephant has had a trunkoplasty and the Lufton fish tank has been revamped. This completes the work on the ante […]
Something fishy going on
Something fishy is going on in the Roman building, as a fish tank has been added in the ante room. The fish (and eel) design copies some from the local […]
Flower power
Work on the Roman mosaic is rapidly reaching its conclusion, with the latest flower design being added to the ante room. The gap next to it is for the installation […]
Laid in jest
The latest part of the mosaic uses a design we have nicknamed the jesters hat(s) for obvious reasons. The mosaic creeps ever nearer its conclusion.
'Hands on Heritage' in the Avalon Marshes 