Story out of Wiltshire, England:
A man stumbled across a Roman villa in his back garden which is being hailed as the most significant discovery of its kind for a decade.
Luke Irwin, from Wiltshire, was laying an electricity cable in his barn when he uncovered a mosaic underground.
Experts from Historic England and Salisbury Museum carefully began excavating the site, and realised the mosaic formed part of the floor of a grand Roman building.
The find has been proclaimed by Historic England as “unparalleled in recent years”.
Dating from between AD 175 and 220, the grand home is thought to have been three storeys high, similar to those found at Chedworth in Gloucestershire. Cont. (Video/Autoplay)
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