The fort and the surrounding settlement lies to the south of Hadrian's Wall. Over the summer months there are excavations on site, which have uncovered a number of Roman documents and artefacts ...
Brading Roman Villa on the Isle of Wight was first excavated in 1880-1881 revealing rooms with elaborate mosaic floors and many fragments of painted wall plaster. This fragment shows a peacock ...
As to why the sculpture is known as Athena rather than Minerva—the ancient Roman equivalent of the Olympian—Manchester tells The Art Newspaper that it was, in fact, originally called Minerva.