The mosaic depicting dolphins and fish is likely to have been commissioned by someone wealthy.
Archaeologists said the mosaic would have been commissioned by someone "wealthy and important"The piece at Wroxeter Roman City depicts brightly-coloured dolphins and fish."Our excavations were in hope of discovering the walls of this building, but we never suspected we would find a beautiful and intact mosaic, which had lain hidden for thousands of years," said Win Scutt, from English Heritage.
The team also found coins and pottery and a painted plaster wall on one side of the mosaic, which experts said would help date the phases of the city, and the activities that took place there.Wroxeter, once known as Viroconium Cornoviorum, was established in the 90s AD. Today, a number of ruined buildings are the only remains of the city above ground, and are cared for by English Heritage.
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