A MUSEUM has received a huge funding boost to support its bid to buy an internationally significant Roman mosaic discovered in Dorset and stop it from being exported. The Association for Roman Archaeology (ARA), a charitable organisation dedicated to fostering an interest in Roman archaeology and art among the general public, has awarded its largest ever grant of £10,000 to Dorset Museum to boost the venue s efforts to purchase the mosaic. As previously reported, the museum launched an appeal back in October to raise £135,000 to buy the piece which dates back to the 4th Century AD, and was discovered in the grounds of a Roman villa in Dewlish, near Dorchester, in 1974.