Basildon, Berkshire - The Inter-City Villa

Feb 25, 2001 on Channel 4 at 12:00 AM

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Summary

In 1838, navvies laying Brunel's Great Western Railway found two Roman floor mosaics, probably from a villa, at Lower Basildon, in Berkshire. The mosaics were broken up and the site almost forgotten until recent aerial photographs revealed a series o... (more)f crop marks in the fields by the railway. Did Brunel's Great Western cut through a Roman villa? And what else might Time Team find in these fields?

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