Some time in the 1990s, a building program was halted when mosaics were revealed. Fredricka told us in enormous detail about the high status residence which broke all the rules by being built over a public road. He could break the rules because he was one of a conquering force. I was one of those who found this detail (among many she told us) amazing, others not so much.
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| The mosaic floor is just above the earlier public road stones |
Random image warning:
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| I found my wings on a Ravenna street |
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| The stone carpet, or mosaic floor of a reception room |
Did you know that birds were an early symbol to indicate holiness of an early christian, before the halo came into effect for saintliness? |
| A later column went through his face, despite the birds |
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| In roman times, it was a lot about the wine |
These mosaics were very close to St Eufemia Church, so the entrance to the underground museum of the mosaics is after moving through the church. It was a simple and elegant church, in keeping with a Greek saint who undoubtedly died a horrible and unnecessary death, but was to become a very fashionable Christian name in Scotland from the 1300s.
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| Entering St Eufemia Church |
All is not so well in the church, as plants are starting to take over.
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| Not cracks in the wall, plants! |
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