Where to see Roman mosaics in Britain

Fishbourne Roman Palace and Gardens
Salthill Road
Fishbourne
Chichester
West Sussex PO19 3QR
Tel: 01243 785859
The remains of the north wing of the palace are enclosed within a cover building where there is the largest collection of in-situ mosaics in Britain, including the famous 'Cupid on a Dolphin' mosaic.

Corinium Museum
Park Street
Cirencester
Tel: 01285 655611
A welcoming and airy museum with one of the finest collections of antiquities from Roman Britain, including various mosaics and the famous Septimus Stone, featured on Time Team's Cirencester programme in the 2000 series, which records the restoration of a column to Jupiter by a governor called Septimus.

Bignor Roman Villa
Bignor
Pulborough
West Sussex RH20 1PH
Tel: 01798 869259
One of the less well-known Romano-British sites open to the public, the villa has a marvellous collection of mosaics. It is six miles north of Arundel, signposted from the A29 and the A285.

British Museum
The British Museum
Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DG
The British Museum has a number of fine Romano-British mosaics, including the early depiction of Christ found in the Hinton St Mary mosaic floor and the first- or second-century Leadenhall Street mosaic, featuring Bacchus on a tiger.

The British Museum also holds several of the mosaics removed during the original early 19th century excavation of the Roman villa at Withington, Gloucestershire, by Samuel Lysons, which Time Team revisited during the 2006 series.

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