Roman Roof and Mosaic Floor Tiles?

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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