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Museum Description: “This wall painting was found at Lullingstone, Kent, in the Darenth valley, when the remains of a Roman villa were excavated in 1949. The villa had been built in the late first century AD, and altered and extended several times in…

Female allegorical figure Liberty, centre, with Gallic rooster, olive branch and musical instrument (?), seated on stone block showing two parazoniums and the hat of Liberty; decorative border. (obverse)

Lower right, Justice, draped, seated left, holding scales in right hand, leaning on parazonium with left arm: to left unidentified allegorical figure, draped, seated right, holding inscribed tablet in both hands with Gallic rooster at feet;…

Part of a necklace

The brooch and necklace were found in 1860 in a female burial. There are discrepancies as to the exact contents of the graves in the earliest published sources, but they included an iron weaving batten, a copper-alloy pin, a…

Issued by Diocletian in 301, the Edict on Maximum prices gives the maximum prices for more than 1,200 products, raw materials, labor, services, modes of transport, animals, and for enslaved peoples. Fresh green animal fodder could be purchased for 1…

This is a fragment of a staff, possibly a crozier, found in a Viking grave in Norway. The fragment was a taken in a raid and then used as jewelry by the Vikings, broken off from a main staff. It is estimated to date from Northern Britain in the late…