Brantingham Roman Villa

Brantingham Roman villa is a Roman villa, now a scheduled monument, near Brantingham, East Riding of Yorkshire, England [1]. The villa would have been closely associated with the Roman town Petuaria Parisorum, where Brough now stands [1]. The villa site was discovered in 1941 at Cockle Pits stone quarry when two geometric mosaics were uncovered [1]. Excavations in 1961 discovered the remains of the villa building, including a large room with a mosaic floor measuring 11.13 m x 7.77 m and a corridor which led to four other rooms [1]. In 1983 a further series of excavations encountered Iron Age ditched enclosures on the site followed by a series of rectangular buildings on the site dating from the 2nd century to the 4th century AD [1]. Two mosaics were discovered in 1941, recorded and reburied [1]. In 1948 they were excavated and were due to be moved to the Hull and East Riding Museum [1]. After they had been prepared for removal, the larger of the two mosaics was stolen and has never been recovered [1].