Chedworth Roman Villa

[poliphilo]

Chedworth Roman Villa (near Cirencester) was discovered in 1864- and one of the charms of the site- with its mock-Tudor custodian's house and  museum-  is that it has been preserved very much as its finders left it.  It is as much a monument to Victorian archaeology- on the cusp between gentlemanly antiquarianism and modern science-  as it is to the Roman past.  

It was raining heavily when we were there. Ailz chose to stay in the car, but I borrowed an umbrella from visitors' centre and sloshed my way round.



The Museum



The Nymphaeum



One of several mosaics (from the school of Corinium)



A huntsman god.

Comments

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

I like the mock Tudor Victorian cottage!
It's also lovely that they have left artifacts in a museum on site. At Italica, except for mosaic floors, they've moved all teh good sculptures and other things to the Achaeological Museum a good 15 km away in Seville.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Chedworth belongs to the National Trust- which took it over from the original owners in the 1920s. I guess there was never any opportunity for a Museum- local or national- to swoop in and run off with the artefacts.