Roman Villas and Houses
by Mandy Barrow

Mosaic Floors

Mosaic have been found on the floors of many Roman buildings. Rich Romans decorated the floors of their main rooms with mosaics - tiny coloured stones (tesserae). These were stuck to the floor with mortar, a type of cement. Each mosaic used thousands of pieces to make a pattern.

Mosaic floors were a statement of wealth and importance.

See more photographs of mosaics

Baths

The on suite bath room often consisted of three rooms; a hot room (caldarium), a place where bathers could sweat, a room of tepid heat (tepidarium, and a cold room (frigidarium).

Collumns

Roman buildings often contained collumns.

Stone Walls

Rich Romans built their houses from stone.

The walls were painted in pretty colours or covered with marble.

There was glass in the windows.

Tiled roofs

Rich Roman roofs were made of terracotta tiles

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