Vine St Leicester Roman Townhouse Mosaic Floors And Tesserae

  

Group of 5 images, Vine St excavations selected images of the mosaic floors and tesserae from the Roman townhouse: -

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Image of Vine St site, working shot of mosaic excavation. Specialists cleaning and conserving decorated mosaic fragment on site.

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Image of Vine St site, working shot of mosaic excavation. Archaeologist excavating small area of surviving mosaic tessellated floor.

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Image of Vine St site, working shot looking south showing hypocaust heating system, consisting of pilae tile stacks. This may have been a temporary build, as there was no stoke room, stoke hole or sooting directly associated with this.

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Image of Vine St site, working shot of mosaic excavation. Archaeologist excavating and cleaning small area of surviving mosaic tessellated floor.

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Image of Vine St site, working shot of mosaic decoration after exposing and cleaning. Building 1M, east range, late 3rd early 4th century.