Field Notes

Painting Britain’s Roman Heritage
Four-volume Corpus of Mosaics to be Published by the British Museum
Not until the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 A.D. did the Romans finally depart Britain, a land they first invaded in 55 B.C. Their remains still litter the landscape: Hadrian’s wall in the north, the elaborate palace at Fishbourne on the southern coast and hundreds of mosaics throughout the region.