Due to the rain, we wanted somewhere under cover so headed over to our second Roman experience of the holiday (still trying to learn lots for Matthew’s first school topic 🙂 .
Brading Roman Villa is much bigger than the one in Newport. It is basically a huge shed on top of a hill but what is inside is precious. This is a new building after water damage affected the Roman artifacts about 15 years ago. There were things to see outside but the rain scared us off 🙁
The surviving mosaics are magnificent, particularly the cock headed man (no sniggering please!)
The children had so much to do here and were completely enchanted with a dolls’ house version of the villa.
There was also the opportunity to dress up…
I confess I can’t remember if I am a centurian or the cock headed man in this…
There was also a fun game for creating Roman figures:
My sister pointed out we have the same shoes. I bet he didn’t get sparkly ones from Tu…
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