Island Life Magazine Ltd October/November 2009 | Page 36

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ISLAND HISTORY

Roman Villa
the big dig 2009
By Adrian Searle

The 2009 Big Dig at Brading Roman Villa

three-week excavation of the villa's mysterious

wound down in late August with many

South Range was in more ways than one a

questions on the history – and pre-history

plunge into the past.

– of the world-famous site answered, and
some intriguing possibilities opened up. The
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For the visitors who came to watch the dig
in progress, the most apparent bits of Roman