Visiting Fishbourne
Roman Palace
HANNA LINDON discovers the treasures of the largest Roman home in Britain
Visiting Fishbourne Roman Palace
By HANNA LINDON
Posted on 11 September 2015
Fishbourne Roman Palace in West Sussex is possibly the single most important Roman site in Britain and its in-house museum makes fascinating viewing. We ignored the modern buildings constructed to protect the excavation and quickly lost ourselves in a treasure trove of finds.
Alongside those footprint-marked ceramic tiles was a bowl crudely scratched with its owner’s name, a golden signet ring belonging to Tiberius Claudius Cataurus, a skeleton that was buried in the rubble of the destroyed palace and a reconstruction of a typical Roman room – not to mention reams of information about the palace’s history and discovery.
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