Chedworth is one of the few Roman villas in Britain whose remains
are open to the public, and this book seeks to explain what these
remains mean. The fourth century in Britain was a 'golden age' and
at the time the Cotswolds were the richest area of Roman Britain.
The wealthy owners of a villa such as Chedworth felt themselves
part of an imperial Roman aristocracy. This is expressed at the
villa in the layout of the buildings, rooms for receiving guests
and for grand dining, the provision of baths, and the use of
mosaics. The villa would also have housed the wife, family and
household of the owner and been the centre of an agricultural
estate. In the nineteenth century Chedworth was rediscovered, and
part of the villa's tale is the way in which it was viewed by a
nineteenth-century Cotswold landowner, Lord Eldon, and then its
current owners, the National Trust. Now, in this remarkable and
beautifully illustrated volume, Chedworth's story is told in full.
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