Brading

Brading, a small but ancient town, once a parliamentary borough, in the Isle of Wight, 4 miles S. of Ryde by rail. The place can still show its stocks and bull-ring; and in 1880 the remains of a Roman villa, with a tessellated floor, were unearthed near the town. In the ruins, assumed to be those of the villa of the Roman governor, were found numerous coins and tiles; there are also traces of a whole row of buildings.