Due to the rain, we wanted somewhere under cover so headed over to our second Roman experience of the holiday (still trying to learn lots for Matthew’s first school topic 
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Brading Roman Villa is much bigger than the one in Newport. It is basically a huge shed on top of a hill but what is inside is precious. This is a new building after water damage affected the Roman artifacts about 15 years ago. There were things to see outside but the rain scared us off 
The surviving mosaics are magnificent, particularly the cock headed man (no sniggering please!)
The children had so much to do here and were completely enchanted with a dolls’ house version of the villa.
There was also the opportunity to dress up…
I confess I can’t remember if I am a centurian or the cock headed man in this…
There was also a fun game for creating Roman figures:
My sister pointed out we have the same shoes. I bet he didn’t get sparkly ones from Tu…
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