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Bignor Roman Villa is a large Roman courtyard villa which has been excavated and put on public display on the Bignor estate in the English county of West Sussex. It is well known for its high quality mosaic floors, which are some of the most complete and intricate in the country.
Fishbourne Roman Palace or Fishbourne Villa is in the village of Fishbourne, near Chichester in West Sussex.The palace is the largest known Roman residence north of the Alps, [1] and has an unusually early date of 75 AD, around thirty years after the Roman conquest of Britain.
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30.2 West Sussex. 31 Warwickshire. 32 Wiltshire. 33 Worcestershire. 34 Yorkshire. ... A list of Roman villas in England confirmed by archaeology. Bedfordshire. Name
Bignor is a village and civil parish in the Chichester district of the English county of West Sussex, about six miles (9.7 km) north of Arundel. It is in the civil parish of Pulborough. The nearest railway station is 3.3 miles (5.3 km) south east of the village, at Amberley. The area of the parish is 471 hectares (1,160 acres).
The Roman army first arrived in the late 40s AD and constructed a fort for the 14 th legion south of Wroxeter. A decade later, that fort was replaced by a new one built less than a mile north.
A large Roman villa was discovered nearby and part-excavated in the 1930s. The excavation was mainly centred on a large bath house complex comprising at least eight rooms. It may have been occupied by an important Roman citizen or a member of the Romano-British aristocracy, like the palace at Fishbourne, and dates from the same period of 65–75A
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