Roman Mosaic Floors

Chester was a Roman city with many buildings, there would therefore have been various types of flooring. Plain cement floors (opus signinum) were made from fragments of broken tile. Tiled floors were made with small tiles either laid flat or on their edge in a herringbone pattern. Tessellated floors were made of small cubes of ceramic tiles, and mosaic floors were made of small multicoloured cubes laid out in a series of patterns or scenes. Mosaic cubes were made out of coloured stones, tile, pottery, and even glass. Shown below, from the Grosvenor Museum, is a small section of mosaic floor, and some of the constituent pieces.

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