Issue No 517 September 2021 Mosaic open weekend Thatched roof on Mosaic House 1898 The villa volunteers are delighted to those living at the cottage beside the villa in announce that the only public opening this Victorian times and that throughout the 19th year of the 4th century mosaic house will take century the roof of the mosaic house was place on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 made of thatch. In the years leading up to September between 11am and 5pm. There WW2, the bath suite and other foundations will be talks about Roman coins and a chance that are on display today were covered over to get up close to the mosaic. There will also with a shed erected on top of them. And to be the chance to join the English Heritage visit the mosaic house would have cost 3d! team of conservators cleaning the mosaics. Please email
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[email protected] your recollections on Twitter: @villa_north. to register your interest. Or come along on the 11th or 12th and tell one In a quest to piece together the 200-year of the volunteers of your memories. history of the site as a visitor attraction, the For more details about opening times and volunteers would be very keen to hear access to the site (which can be arduous for readers’ memories of visiting the site in those with mobility issues), please visit: earlier times. The very first account of the www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/ villa was published by Henry Hakewell after north-leigh-roman-villa/ his 1813-1816 excavations of the site.