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The Big Roman Villa: A Time Team Special: Channel 4: 8th January 2006 at 5.55pm
In 2002, Tony Robinson and the Time Team unearthed one of their biggest and most exciting finds: a beautifully preserved and previously unknown Roman villa lying inches below the turf of a Somerset field.

They discovered that the owners must have been among the richest inhabitants of Roman Britain, commissioning extraordinary mosaics, wall paintings and sophisticated heating systems. But a three-day dig wasn't enough to investigate such a site properly and so, in July last year, the team - along with 50 or 60 diggers and a group of experts - returned to discover why the villa was so large, who lived there and, most intriguingly, how it met its ignominious end in the late fifth century.

This hour-long film brings together the whole story of the villa, showing its progression from small farm building to splendid country house and back to farm building again.
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