Hinton St Mary is a village and civil parish in Dorset, southern England.

It is sited on a low Corallian limestone ridge beside the River Stour, one mile (1.5 kilometres) north of the market town Sturminster Newton.

[3] The manor house was once owned by the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbey,[3] and its grounds includes a noted avenue of beech trees.

A return visit was made to the site of the mosaic in 2021, with several exploration trenches dug and several interesting finds uncovered.

In July 2022, archaeologists from the British Museum unearthed another Roman mosaic dating to the 4th century AD and hundreds of objects from regularly positioned such as jewelry, cash, roof tiles and kiln bricks.