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It's #DolphinDay so of course we have to share this amazing Roman mosaic of Cupid riding a dolphin from Fishbourne @romanpalace
📷 by Tony Hisgett / CC BY 2.0
📷 by Tony Hisgett / CC BY 2.0
The palace is the largest residential Roman building discovered in Britain and has a massive number of amazing mosaics to match.
📷: Some of the wide-spanning mosaic floors, by Nigel Richardson / CC BY-SA 2.0
📷: Some of the wide-spanning mosaic floors, by Nigel Richardson / CC BY-SA 2.0
Many of the mosaics - including the delightful dolphin - were discovered during excavations in the 1960s, after a trench for a water-main exposed building material.
🔗 to the excavations being reported in Antiquity (£) doi.org/10.1017/S00035…
📷: One of the mosaics being dug up
🔗 to the excavations being reported in Antiquity (£) doi.org/10.1017/S00035…
📷: One of the mosaics being dug up
