Fishbourne palace is a roman palace which was supposedly lived in by king T/Cogidubnus, most of it burnt down about 200 years ago however there is still remaing flooring mosaics, gardens and a vague floor plan.
It was found about 50 years ago when digging a trench for a river when they came among the ruins.
There were four wings each with a different purpose, and large gardens including a beautiful two lawn courtyard.
We left school at 8:15 and took a 2 hour journey to Chichester, Sussex. The journey was fun, we listened to music, played consequences and told jokes.
We arrived at about 10:15 and went straight to the bathrooms. After our long bathroom break we went to the museum. After learning a lot about trade, clothing, food and design we set off to watch an15 minute film.
The film was about how fishbourne ( which from here on in I shall call fishy) was found, 're made' on a computer and come back to life.
Then it was time to become archeologists. We deciphered a lot of information from one small piece of painted mosaic, too much to write down.
Now it was lunch, a whole 45 minutes to eat, drink and relax in the cold, wet and windy weather of england.
Now it was time for the mosaics. While rooms were filled with increasing details floors, with colour and just plain black and white. A few pieces were even whole, which was amazing! A lot of the work was gone but still it was impressive.
We then visited the gardens and saw different types of vegetables, herbs and fruits growing.
After a 4 hour stay at fishy we headed home, another 2 hour trip.
Overall the trip was very interesting and I was surprised to find that barely any of the actual palace remains, only the mosaics in the north wing, all the other wings are beneath the ground!
You should really visit it is quite interesting!
( the attached photo is a computer version of what fishy would've actually looked like)
Sara
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