This talk will present the results of the recently-completed excavations at Hinton St Mary in Dorset, where the famous mosaic thought to depict Jesus Christ was found 60 years ago. Limited investigations conducted after the mosaic’s discovery proposed that the mosaic was probably part of a courtyard villa, the dominant villa plan of the late Roman period. The new fieldwork presents a rather different perspective and suggests that the ‘villa’s interpretation may need revising.
