Brantingham Roman Villa

Brantingham Roman Villa is a scheduled monument near Brantingham in the East Riding of Yorkshire, closely associated with the Roman town of Petuaria (modern Brough). Discovered in 1941 at Cockle Pits quarry when two geometric mosaics were uncovered, the larger mosaic was infamously stolen during preparation for museum transfer in 1948 and never recovered. Excavations in 1961 revealed a large room with a mosaic floor measuring 11.13 x 7.77 m and a corridor leading to four other rooms. Further work in 1983 uncovered Iron Age ditched enclosures and a sequence of rectangular buildings spanning the 2nd to 4th centuries AD.