Stephen R. Cosh DLitt FSA is an independent archaeological writer and illustrator specialising in the Roman period. He worked for over thirty-five years with his colleague, David S. Neal, on the research, production and publication of the five-volume corpus of Romano-British mosaics, completed in 2024. He has contributed specialist reports on the mosaics from several sites, including Chedworth, Low Ham, Dewlish and Colliton Park, Dorchester, and the building report for the large villa complex at Eccles, Kent. He has also written articles on a variety of archaeological aspects of Roman Britain in addition to those concerning mosaics, appearing in the proceedings of several county archaeological societies, Britannia, Antiquaries Journal, Mosaic, the Association for Roman Archaeology (ARA) publications, among others. For many years he was secretary, editor and later vice-chairman of ASPROM (the Association for the Study and Preservation of Roman Mosaics).

‘Stephen Cosh, together with his colleague Dr David Neal, are the authors of a truly monumental and authoritative five-volume survey of all the Roman mosaics of Britain… In this book, Cosh distils his vast learning to produce an ideal handbook to the subject in 16 chapters whose contents include the manufacture of mosaics and the construction of geometric patterns… Cosh’s handbook will surely remain the key introduction to the Roman British mosaics into the foreseeable future, and Archaeopress is to be congratulated for maintaining the quality of the parent corpus.’ – Martin Henig (2026): Current Archaeology issue 437

• List of Figures Author’s note Chapter One: Introduction    Chapter Two: Manufacture Chapter Three: Schemes, patterns and motifs Chapter Four: First- to third-century mosaics Chapter Five: Fourth-century Groups Chapter Six: Figured mosaics Chapter Seven: Mythological stories and literature Chapter Eight: Sports and leisure     Chapter Nine: Paganism, Christianity and superstition Chapter Ten: Mosaics in principal rooms Chapter Eleven: Baths and the Porticus Chapter Twelve: Mosaics in aisled buildings Chapter Thirteen: Maintenance, repair and alterations Chapter Fourteen: Mosaics and the end of Roman Britain Chapter Fifteen: How mosaics were recorded Chapter Sixteen: Mosaics on display Bibliography Index

Stephen R. Cosh DLitt FSA is an independent archaeological writer and illustrator specialising in the Roman period. He worked for over thirty-five years with his colleague, David S. Neal, on the research, production and publication of the five-volume corpus of Romano-British mosaics, completed in 2024. He has contributed specialist reports on the mosaics from several sites, including Chedworth, Low Ham, Dewlish and Colliton Park, Dorchester, and the building report for the large villa complex at Eccles, Kent. He has also written articles on a variety of archaeological aspects of Roman Britain in addition to those concerning mosaics, appearing in the proceedings of several county archaeological societies, Britannia, Antiquaries Journal, Mosaic, the Association for Roman Archaeology (ARA) publications, among others. For many years he was secretary, editor and later vice-chairman of ASPROM (the Association for the Study and Preservation of Roman Mosaics).

‘Stephen Cosh, together with his colleague Dr David Neal, are the authors of a truly monumental and authoritative five-volume survey of all the Roman mosaics of Britain… In this book, Cosh distils his vast learning to produce an ideal handbook to the subject in 16 chapters whose contents include the manufacture of mosaics and the construction of geometric patterns… Cosh’s handbook will surely remain the key introduction to the Roman British mosaics into the foreseeable future, and Archaeopress is to be congratulated for maintaining the quality of the parent corpus.’ – Martin Henig (2026): Current Archaeology issue 437

• List of Figures Author’s note Chapter One: Introduction    Chapter Two: Manufacture Chapter Three: Schemes, patterns and motifs Chapter Four: First- to third-century mosaics Chapter Five: Fourth-century Groups Chapter Six: Figured mosaics Chapter Seven: Mythological stories and literature Chapter Eight: Sports and leisure     Chapter Nine: Paganism, Christianity and superstition Chapter Ten: Mosaics in principal rooms Chapter Eleven: Baths and the Porticus Chapter Twelve: Mosaics in aisled buildings Chapter Thirteen: Maintenance, repair and alterations Chapter Fourteen: Mosaics and the end of Roman Britain Chapter Fifteen: How mosaics were recorded Chapter Sixteen: Mosaics on display Bibliography Index