If you followed our History topic of Romans this term you will know that the other week we visited a Roman Museum in Canterbury. Both Boys absolutely adored this so running with their enjoyment I took them to Lullingston Villa.
We learnt a few details about the different people that had lived in the villa from Governors to families.
The Villa remains are mainly the foundations but we could clearly see the separate rooms and from the evidence collected in them to specifically know which rooms they were; this included seeing the hypocaust throughout.
The Bathing rooms were the most interesting point for William. He found the fact that they had 3 rooms, one for hot, warm and cold bathing really interesting.
On viewing the cult and religion room they had a display of the different Roman God and then the transition to the Christian Gods. This is something that we haven't covered but after the boys enquiring about them I think it will be something we will do.
We saw two Busts of people who they believed lived in the Villa. The one on the Left is suspected to be the Governor of Britain and used the Villa as a retreat Home. The on eon the right, including his military broach is suspected to be the Governors father.
The villa over 2 Centuries has several adaptions added to it. The above house can be moved to see the transition.
This was one of my favourite parts and only due to me getting an ego boost!
The displays show the average height of a Roman Child, Woman and Man; the average man was 5ft 7 and looking at the picture I am not far off. Although I am aware that I am only 5'3 and the angle of William taking the photo helps but I am going to ignore all that and declare myself as almost 5'7 ;)
We saw the remains of wall plaster and roof tiles. With the roof tiles they have unique prints on them that would have showed the fact that these were made outside and left to dry when being made. The Boys loved trying to match the prints with the animals provided.
From the top we saw the scale of the foundations which really shows you the size and detailed aspect of what was there.
We finished on seeing the two mosaics that were discovered in the villa each depicting different Roman Gods that represented the different season and fertility.
The Boys, as well as myself, really loved this trip out and learnt so much about the day to day lives of Romans over here in the UK. It left a lot to talk about on the journey on the way home.
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