MonoMonday...Roman Mosaics

I knew exactly where to go today to take a photo for today's MonoMonday  challenge, the theme being heritage, our local library/One Stop Shop. I took the shot from upstairs looking down on to our town's heritage, a 2000 year old Roman mosaic floor, discovered in 1920, kept in storage for many years, and finally displayed for all to see and admire. The centre piece, which is referred to in the following info, I have added as an extra

Thanks to Nickimages888 for hosting this interesting theme :)

And massive thanks to everyone who put my humble daisies on to page 1 this morning.......x


Keynsham’s Roman Mosaics redisplayed (from James Russell)
Between 1922 and 1924 a large late Roman villa was partly excavated by Arthur Bulleid and  Dom Ethelbert Horne at Durley Hill, Keynsham. One of the most sophisticated in Britain, the villa produced a number of fine mosaics. Two of these, from the hexagonal dining chambers J and W at the corners of the complex, were lifted and removed to a lodge at the entrance to the Fry’s (later Cadbury/Schweppes) factory at Somerdale. Here they were later joined by an important collection of Medieval sculptures and other finds from the excavation at Keynsham Abbey, and material from a second Roman site underlying the Somerdale factory itself.
 
Following the closure of this lodge museum in the 1980s, its rich collections were placed in store, most recently in a warehouse in Pixash Lane, Saltford. Earlier this year, however,  some of this material was put back on view in the so-called ‘One Stop Shop’, part of the new Keynsham Civic Centre. This building is used principally to house the town library and other council services. The principal archaeological exhibit is a large portion of the elaborately figured mosaic from Room W in the Durley Hill villa. This has been sunk into the floor of the ground floor library, and covered by glass panels supported on a framework of steel rods. The centrepiece of the Room J mosaic, an exquisitely detailed rosette, is displayed on the wall of a nearby staircase. A couple of window displays round the library room show a modest selection of Roman and Medieval small finds.