Lullingstone Roman Villa mosaic replica
At the Festival of History this year hundreds of children helped us to make a replica of the mosaic found at Lullingstone Roman Villa in Kent.
The Romans used mosaics to decorate the floors of their fine houses (villas). The tiles used to make these mosaics are called tesserae and they were usually made of stone. The finest mosaics were made of thousands of very small tesserae but other, less well off house owners, made mosaics from larger tiles.
The Romans used lots of different designs. Some were geometric patterns but others were pictures and designs based on characters from myths and legends, the Roman Gods or the four seasons. The mosaic we copied from Lullingstone Roman Villa in Kent shows Bellerophon riding the winged horse Pegasus. The heads in circles in the corners are the four seasons. Summer was missing so we had to imagine what that head would have looked like. Can you guess which season is which?
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