Fishbourne

Roman palace near Chichester (Noviomagus Regnorum), West Sussex, S England, UK, discovered in 1960. Probably erected in the AD 60s for the British client-king Cogidubnus, a noted Roman collaborator, it continued in use into the 4th-c. Major features are the formal courtyard garden, the monumental entrance and audience hall, the mosaics of the four colonnaded wings, and the site museum.

Fishbourne is a village and civil parish in the Chichester District of West Sussex, situated 2 miles (3.2km west of Chichester.

Fishbourne is the location of a major archaeological site known as Fishbourne Roman Palace. On the site have been found remains dating to around the time of the Roman Invasion of Britain in AD 43. One theory is that this was the site of one of the landings by the Romans designed to secure the 'friendly' tribe of the Atrebates, whose King Verica had fled his enemies for Roman protection. Subsequently, the wooden buildings were replaced by one of the greatest Roman palaces in the Roman world.