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The Entrance Hall
The gracious hall contains military paintings relating to the 1st Duke's campaigns, marble portrait busts of the 1st Duke’s contemporaries and portraits of the Dukes and Duchesses of Wellington. The floor contains Roman mosaic pavements, excavated by the 2nd Duke in 1866, from the Romano-British town of Calleva
Atrebatum, modern-day Silchester, nearby.
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