[1][2] The villa and bath house complex at High Wycombe was constructed between 150 and 170 and was expanded during the early 4th century; it was inhabited until at least the 4th century, with the latest dateable object discovered at the site being a coin which dates from 320 to 324.

Some of the roof tiles were re-used in the construction of the Hospital of St John the Baptist between the 1170s and 1180,[4] and much of the ruins of the villa and bath house complex were destroyed between 1855 and 1856 when a modern bath house was constructed on the site.

Robbers previously removed parts of the floor tiles of the bath house prior to its discovery, and the first of two mosaics was discovered on 1 July 1724 which was initially believed to be Roman pavement.

[2] It was excavated by Edward John Payne in 1862 and in the same excavation, Payne discovered fragments of a second mosaic and the isolated tesserae of a third (both believed to have been constructed alongside the villa in the 2nd century)[2] alongside broken fragments of wall plaster.

The site of the complex was then granted to allotments, and as a result of this, the Room I mosaic was slowly destroyed by gardeners who were unaware of its existence; whatever remained was destroyed during building work on the site during the early 1950s.