Mosaic from Boxmoor Villa Boxmoor Roman Villa is a ruined Roman Villa at Boxmoor,

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, Hertfordshire. The remains have been excavated, but they are now buried. The Roman villa was occupied from the first century AD up to the Fourth century. First remains of a Roman villa were already excavated in 1837. A plan, the finds and a drawing of a

mosaic A mosaic is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/mortar, and covering a surface. Mosaics are often used as floor and wall decoration, and were particularly pop ...

found were published. Further and full excavations were done in 1969 up to 1970 as a school was built on the site of the Roman villa. Reprint of The excavations uncovered five building phases of a Roman villa. The earliest remains are a timber building dating to the first century AD. Around AD 150 the timber house was replaced by a stone building, not exactly on the same spot, but slightly further north. The new Villa consisted of a range of rooms with a veranda on the west side. Several rooms had

hypocaust A hypocaust ( la, hypocaustum) is a system of central heating in a building that produces and circulates hot air below the floor of a room, and may also warm the walls with a series of pipes through which the hot air passes. This air can warm th ...

heating. Mosaics were found. and wall paintings. The villa was abandoned in the fourth century AD.

Conservation

Some finds are held by the

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References

{{Villas in Roman Britain Roman villas in Hertfordshire 4th-century disestablishments in Roman Britain Scheduled monuments in Hertfordshire 1st-century establishments in Roman Britain