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Title: Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society H. A. Dibbin
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Publisher: Leicestershire : Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society
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coloured red, white, blue, and drab, laid on a bed of common mortar, which in its turn rested on the original native ground.* Rev. J. H. Hill read the following remarks upon the drawings exhibited by him :— Medbourne Tessellated Pavement. I have much pleasure in exhibiting a very excellent drawing (by Mr. H. A. Dibbin) of the beautiful tessellated pavement lately removed from Medbourne. This pavement was found in the year 1721 in a square entrenchment, not very far from the church, situated to the north of the Via Devana, which passed through this parish from Cottingham to Leicester, by Slawston, where it assumed the nameof Port Hill, to Cranoe Salters way, and so on by Glooston to Leicester. This pavement was again opened in 1793, and in the beginning of this year it was opened by a gentleman who bought * By the courtesy of Mr. Dibbin a reduced uncoloured copy of that gentlemans elaborate coloured drawing of the Pavement, made to scale, is here given. The use of a strong glass will show every detail.
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AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 71 it, and removed it (I believe) to London. The pavement lay due north and south, about three feet and a half beneath the surface.The floor consisted of tesserae as follows: whinstone (blue), brick (red), oolitic stone (drab), and white, which was a composition. The size of these tesserae averages about half an inch, but those on the outward portion of the pattern are double the size. The pattern, as you will observe from the drawing, is very rich in colour and elegant in design, and the size in its perfect state must have been forty by twenty feet, or perhaps more. The pavement must be of early date, perhaps about the beginning of the fourth century; it formed the entrance hall of a Roman villa. Too much credit cannot possibly be given to Mr. Dibbin and his staff for the very careful way in which the pavement has been measured and photographed, by which the design of the entire pavement hasbeen successfully reproduced. The pavement itself has been carefully removed

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