Read "The Face in the Floor", one among thirty-five short stories in the "Wessex Tales" series addressing the theme "eight thousand years in the lives of an English village."
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Among the most treasured objects in the British Museum is a mosaic floor which features the earliest likeness of Christ ever found in the British Isles. Why such a treasure came to light under the grass of an English meadow remains a mystery. Only one thing about this floor is certain. It was laid circa 325 AD, not long after Constantine became the first emperor to convert to Christianity. Such a magnificent floor demands a story. It should have been found by archeologists beneath modern Rome, Cologne, Bordeaux or Bath. Why was it laid in a remote farming villa, miles from civilization? Here is the story the floor deserves...
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