Fishbourne Roman Palace
About Fishbourne Roman Palace
Fishbourne Roman Palace or Fishbourne Villa is in the village of Fishbourne, near Chichester in West Sussex. The palace is the largest known Roman residence north of the Alps, and has an unusually early date of 75 AD, around thirty years after the Roman conquest of Britain.
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Dr Rob Simmons, who's the curator of the Fishbourne Roman Palace, found out about this, and he said he thought it was hilarious, and it really appealed to him that for 50 years, they'd been saying these things were board game tokens in their museum, and now they have to relabel them.
from 217: No Such Thing As A Trapezium-Shaped Hankie, 2018-05-18 at 00:01:49 · read transcript
Other times Fishbourne Roman Palace came up
We know that these were used because... They're covered in shit. Kind of. So there was Fishbourne Roman Palace, which is a Roman site in England, had bits of pottery which had partly mineralised excrement on them. Until they discovered the excrement, they thought they were board game counters, but they weren't. I think the word pessoi means both these pebbles and also board game counters.
217: No Such Thing As A Trapezium-Shaped Hankie, 2018-05-18 · listen
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