File:Roman Pavement Found at Nether-Heyford.jpg

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English: Roman Pavement found at Nether-Heyford.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Herman Moll  (1654–1732)  wikidata:Q1610319
 
Herman Moll
Alternative names
Moll, Hermann
Description British cartographer, engraver and publisher
Date of birth/death circa 1654
date QS:P,+1654-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
22 September 1732 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Unknown placeUnknown place London Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q1610319
Title
English: Roman Pavement found at Nether-Heyford.
Description
English: A depiction of the mosaic in the ruins of the Roman villa at Horestone / Horsestone meadow near Nether Heyford, West Northamptonshire, England, from the figures decorating the margins of Moll's map of "Northampton Shire" (Northampton), the 25th in his Set of Fifty New and Correct Maps of England and Wales...

The mosaic was discovered in 1699 and destroyed for use in road repair in 1780. John Morton described the mosaic in his Natural History of Northampton-Shire (1712) as "a noble piece of art. It lay under ground, covered with mould and rubbish, in a part of the meadow which is every year overflowed with land floods; and yet when it was first uncovered it was so close and firm as to bear walking upon as well as a stone floor would do. But leaving it awhile exposed to the night dews, the cement became relaxed, and the squares easily separable. It appears to have been the floor of a square room in some house or other structure of a circular figure, and about twenty yards diameter. The room that had this curious floor was in the southern part of the said structure. In the western and northern part of it were several lesser rooms or cellars about ten feet in length and four broad. That there really were such little rooms is plain enough from the partition walls, the bottoms whereof have been discovered in digging there. The borders or sides of the floors were painted with three straight and parallel lines or stripes of three different colours—red, yellow, and green. The floors were all upon the same level. Upon one of these floors were found three urns."

Cf. HeritageGateway.org.uk and Morgan (1886).
Français : Sujet : Fossiles

Mosaïque antique Météorites Divisions politiques et administratives Northampton, Comté de -- Divisions politiques et administratives Échelle(s) : 10 English Miles [= 4,6 cm] Référence bibliographique : 173 Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : AnvilEur Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : MAEDI008 Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : MAEDIGen0 Couverture : Royaume-Uni – Angleterre – Northamptonshire Langue : anglais

Éditeur : [T. Bowles] (London)
Date 1724
date QS:P571,+1724-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions height: 33 cm (12.9 in); width: 23.5 cm (9.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,33U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,23,5U174728
institution QS:P195,Q193563
References
Français : Notice de recueil : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40577015h

Appartient à : Collection d'Anville ; 02275 Notice du catalogue : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41292713k

Extrait de A New Description of England and Wales, With the Adjacent Islands, 1724.
Source/Photographer
Français : Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Cartes et plans, GE DD-2987 (2275)
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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