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Link to an article in Autocar about the Roman Pavement displayed in 1951 www.mg-cars.org.uk/imgytr/pdf/autocar200451.pdf
Found during 2014 search of Citizen archive.
1951_07_10 Author unknown
1987
Link to Woodchester Mosaic replica
It took Bob and John Woodward 10 years to make the replica from 1.6 million tiny tesserae tiles.
In 2010 it was put on display at Prinknash Abbey, but still without a permanent home.
A Woodchester consortium failed to get the mosaic, and it was sold to an anonymous buyer for £75,000.
Does anyone know where it is now?
[…] The Orpheus Pavement – which depicts Orpheus, legendary Greek musician, poet and prophet, charming birds and animals with the sounds of his harp – is one of the finest and largest mosaics in Europe, so it is particularly tragic that it remains out of public view. Sadly (speaking as an archaeology graduate) this can be the way with mosaics, which are very costly to preserve and display, and keeping them in situ does sometimes end up being the safest and best place for them, once they have been thoroughly recorded through excavation. You can see contemporary articles about the various uncoverings of the mosaic since the 1950s in this great photo archive put together by Stroud Local History Society here. […]