点评:Monday 16 September 2024, My husband and I went to visit Chedworth Roman Villa, Under the care of the National Trust. We last visited here 2018, so no doubt many new changes have been made.
We arrived and parked our car in the car park and walked the short distance to Chedworth Roman Villa. Chedworth Roman Villa was discovered in 1864 when a gamekeeper, out ferreting for rabbits, found small stone cubes – loose tesserae – from one of the buried mosaics. The site was swiftly dug to reveal extensive walls, bath houses and fine mosaics from one of the most significant Roman villas in Britain.
The 19th century landowner Lord Eldon, maintained timber shelter buildings over the most delicate ruins, and had a small museum for artefacts. The estate was sold in the 1920’s and the Villa was brought for the nation through public subscription.
Chedworth Roman Villa was at its greatest in the fourth century, as a large and luxurious country house, with many domestic comforts such as under floor heating and two bath houses.
In 2011 the site underwent a major renovation with a brand new shelter building to protect its fragile remains, new museum displays and many more ways to learn about life during the ‘Golden Age’ of Roman Britain.
My husband and I wondered around this interesting building. Archaeologists were there doing some work on a mosaic floor that had been hidden under tarmac and concrete for years and they were working on restoring the mosaic floors hidden underneath.
My husband and I took the audio guide around the site, with various characters talking about what it was like to live and work for the owners of the villa. The owner of the villa talked about visiting guests and hosting a dinner party and how they spent time in the baths before dinner. The audio guide was so good and the actors so real that you could close your eyes and believe that you were actually there at the site in Roman Britain. I found inspiration whilst I was here and I wrote a poem called ‘Rituals of a New Day’
My husband and I also went round the museum with its exhibits of all the things found at the villa over the years. These included hair pins, stone tablets with various gods and religious items on them, bits of terracotta bowls and basins, stone pillars, bits of marble mosaic floors, coins and jewellery.
After wandering round for three hours My husband and I were in need of refreshment, so we went to the ‘Villa’ Tearoom, where my husband had a ginger beer and I had a fizzy orangeade. We left the museum at 4.00pm.
翻译:2024 年 9 月 16 日星期一,我和丈夫参观了由国家信托基金管理的 Chedworth Roman Villa。我们上次来这里是在 2018 年,所以毫无疑问这里已经发生了很多新的变化。
我们到达后将车停在停车场,步行一小段距离即可到达 Chedworth Roman Villa。Chedworth Roman Villa 于 1864 年被发现,当时一名猎场看守人在搜寻兔子时,从其中一块埋藏的马赛克中发现了小石块——松散的镶嵌图案。该遗址被迅速挖掘出来,露出了英国最重要的罗马别墅之一的广阔墙壁、浴室和精美的马赛克。
19 世纪的地主埃尔登勋爵在最精致的废墟上维护了木质避难所建筑,并建了一个小型文物博物馆。该庄园于 1920 年代出售,别墅通过公众捐款为国家带来。
切德沃斯罗马别墅在公元四世纪达到顶峰,是一座宽敞豪华的乡间别墅,拥有许多家居设施,如地板采暖和两间浴室。
2011 年,该遗址进行了大规模翻修,新建了一座庇护所建筑以保护其脆弱的遗迹,还开设了新的博物馆展览,并提供了更多了解罗马不列颠“黄金时代”生活的方式。
我丈夫和我参观了这座有趣的建筑。考古学家在那里对一块多年来一直隐藏在柏油路面和混凝土下的马赛克地板进行修复,他们正在努力修复隐藏在下面的马赛克地板。
我丈夫和我带着语音导游参观了这座遗址,各种人物讲述了别墅主人的生活和工作。别墅主人谈到了拜访客人和举办晚宴,以及他们在晚餐前如何在浴室里度过时光。语音导游非常好,演员们非常真实,你可以闭上眼睛,相信你真的身处罗马不列颠的遗址。我在这里找到了灵感,写了一首名为《新一天的仪式》的诗
我和丈夫还参观了博物馆,里面陈列着多年来在别墅发现的所有东西。这些包括发夹、刻有各种神和宗教物品的石碑、陶碗和盆、石柱、大理石马赛克地板、硬币和珠宝。
逛了三个小时后,我和丈夫需要休息一下,所以我们去了“别墅”茶室,我丈夫喝了一杯姜汁啤酒,我喝了一杯起泡的橙汁。我们下午 4 点离开博物馆。