In 1960, a man was laying a waterpipe underneath the quaint village of Fishbourne near Chichester, West Sussex, when he uncovered what looked like Roman remains. After he duly reported the discover, the archaeologists were called in and they quickly unearthed more and more prestigious finds. They went on to uncover the largest Roman domestic building ever to be discovered north of the Alps: a palace laid out on Imperial lines. During the period of Roman occupation in Britain, one of the most important Roman settlements on the island was a city called Noviomagus Reginorum (modern day Chichester). The land around Chichester was originally owned by a British tribe called the Atrebates, who quickly sided with the Romans following Claudius’ invasion of the island in 43 AD. Not long after the invasion, a granary was constructed at the site in Fishbourne; but it soon transformed into a palace, completed in c.75 AD. Its interior was decorated with beautiful, unique frescoes and perhaps the fir