Mazes & Labyrinths

The final known Romano-British example is rather anomalous, for it is questionable whether it is a labyrinth at all. It is a fourth-century mosaic excavated in 1964 at Fullerton in Hampshire (map grid reference SU 374401), which has an involuted square spiral pattern. It has been suggested that this may be the work of an inexperienced mosaicist, who attempted, and failed, to re-create a proper labyrinth pattern. Strangely, it resembles somewhat an odd and undated spiral pavement pattern in the floor of the church at Thornton in Leicestershire