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 ...

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 ...

The designs were applied on plaster with hints of ... extremely unusual,” Faraday said. “Wall paintings were a relatively cheap and disposable form of decoration, and so were rarely ...