\paperw5085 \margr0\margl0\ATXph16380 \plain \fs20 \f1 \fs22 Mosaics first appeared in Britain in the first century AD. Used to decorate towns and villas, they were signs of grea
t prosperity. At the outset they were laid by immigrant craftsmen, but by the 3rd and 4th centuries local mosaic production had begun at Cirencester (Orpheus motifs) and later in Dorset (Christian iconography).
