We walk past the site of the Roman villa pretty much every weekend. The field is ploughed regularly as it is a working farm field so that means from time to time small fragments work their way up to the surface.
Abstract of reserch talking about mosaic tesserae being found at the exact same spot https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/britannia/article/ironmaking-at-the-chesters-villa-woolaston-gloucestershire-survey-and-excavation-198791/BD52F4614D3DAA7603C319BC72EF5FFC
More info on Roman Mosaic https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/a-brief-introduction-to-roman-mosaics/
For sure the cube specimens we found are Roman mosaic tiles.
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