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During the 2012 archeological survey by Taylor Wimpey, an additional 15 Roman buildings were detected under the fields of Keynsham Hams, with a central road running through the middle. [2] [4] This has led archeologists to suggest that Keynsham may be the location of lost Roman settlement of Trajectus, which is the Roman word for "bridgehead ...
In 2009 a grant of £90,000 was made to Bath and North East Somerset Council to contribute towards the cost of re-developing displays and improving access to the Roman Baths, [42] by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport/Wolfson Fund, which was established to promote improvements in Museums and Galleries in England. [43]
Of particular note is the original Roman Great Bath still lead-lined and fed by the sacred spring through Roman lead pipes. A hoard of 30,000 silver coins, one of the largest discovered in Britain, was unearthed in an archaeological dig in 2012. The coins, believed to date from the 3rd century, were found not far away from the Roman baths. [15]
A section of the mosaic. The Lopen Roman Mosaic is a Roman mosaic, probably from a Roman villa, in the village of Lopen, Somerset, England. [1]It was discovered in 2001 by George Caton, who was operating a mechanical digger and noticed small cubes of coloured stone, [2] which turned out to be part of the floor of an eight-roomed Roman villa and is the largest Roman mosaic so far discovered in ...
The North Somerset Butterfly House; Nunney Castle; Peat Moors Centre; Priest's House Muchelney ; Prior Park Bath ; Quantock Hills AONB ; Radstock Museum; River Avon; River Chew; Roman Baths Bath ; The Shoe Museum, Street; Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway; Somerset Brick and Tile Museum, Somerset Coal Canal; Museum of Somerset; Somerset Levels ...
The large 14-foot (4.3m) square mosaic from the floor of the frigidarium depicts the story of Aeneas and Dido, as told in the 1st century BC by the Roman poet, Virgil. Like the villa, it dates to the mid-4th century. The Low Ham mosaic is unique in Roman Britain in providing a narrative story in five panels.
Part of the ceremonial county of Somerset, Bath and North East Somerset occupies an area of 220 square miles (570 km 2), two-thirds of which is green belt. [2] It stretches from the outskirts of Bristol , south into the Mendip Hills and east to the southern Cotswold Hills and Wiltshire border. [ 2 ]
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