In this episode Neil steps into an opulent Roman Villa grand enough to have housed the governor of Roman Britannia and maybe even put up a visiting emperor or two.
Lullingstone villa, in Kent, was built in the first century AD and developed and expanded over the next 300 years or so. Large in size, by anyone’s standard, and decorated with fine mosaic floors and beautiful wall paintings. With some archaeological detective work and painstaking restoration the interiors of this incredible building reveal nothing less than the arrival of Christianity into the British Isles.
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51. White Slavery, Dunashad Castle
50. Shakespeare & the Globe Theatre, London
49. Hampton Court Palace
48. The Spanish Armada, the Giant’s Causeway
47. Elizabeth I & the Spanish Armada
46. Francis Drake and the Golden Hind, Aldeburgh
45. The Battle of Flodden, Northumberland
44. Scotland’s Silver Brooch, Stirling
43. The League of Legends, Kings Lynn
42. Lost in the Mire, Morecambe Bay Sands, Lancashire
41. Last Stands of the Brave, Harlech Castle
40. The Wars of the Roses, Westminister Abbey
39. Making A King, Robert the Bruce
38. Europe’s Oldest Living Thing, Perthshire
37. Glastonbury, Somerset
36. Robert the Bruce and the Declaration of Arbroath
35. St Nectan’s Glen, Cornwall
34. The heart of the British Isles, Snaefell, Isle of Man
33. Magna Carta
32. Durham Cathedral
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