Blackfriars Roman pavement |
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| L3120 Scale drawing of the Blackfriars tessellated Roman pavement. Thought to have been laid between 70 and 85 AD during the rule of Governor Julius Agricola, the mosaic was discovered in 1832 whilst foundations were being dug for a house at 53 Jewry Wall Street. The house was subsequently demolished during the construction of the Last Main Line in the 1890s, and the railway built a tiled mosaic chamber, located beneath the platforms at Leicester Central, in which to preserve this remarkable relic of antiquity. As this plan demonstrates however, large sections of the floor did not survive into the nineteenth century. The pavement was removed to the city's Jewry Wall Museum in the mid 1970s. |
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| Contributor |
Leicester City Council |
| Creator |
attribution, Unknown; , |
| Date |
creation, Unknown; , |
| Type |
Plans, Floor plans; , |
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dimension.H, 274mm; dimension.W, 203mm; , ; , |
| Identifier |
736 ' 1977 |
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The Jewry Wall Museum, Leicester |
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EN |
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part of, Museum History File - 736 ' 1977; , ; , ; , |
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Location.Current Repository, The Jewry Wall Museum, Leicester; period, Unknown; , ; , |
| Rights |
Leicester City Council |
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File created 4:2:1, 17/5/2004
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