I have just added this to the map of places to fly your drone at Drone Scene:
Land owner permission not required.
Parking / TOAL: 51.432341, -1.566057
Free parking is available 100m to the east of the site.
The Roman villa was initially built in about 60AD near the site of a Roman guard post covering a crossing of the River Kennet. Successively rebuilt and enlarged over the next two centuries, in its heyday it boasted 60 rooms, two thermal baths and a number of mosaic floors and hypocausts. The magnificent surviving mosaic floor was built in the mid 4th century. Its central feature depicts Orpheus, god of the underworld and musician to Apollo. It is thought that this was a homage to a religious cult associated with Apollo and Bacchus which flourished at that time. The quality of the mosaic design and the rarity of its overall configuration, with what would have been three semi-circular apses at one end, make it one of the outstanding Roman mosaics in Britain. It is now protected by a roof and there is a raised viewing platform.
The originator declared that this location was not inside a Flight Restriction Zone at the time of being flown on 17/06/2023. It remains the responsibility of any pilot to check for any changes before flying at the same location.
