Scale: 1:80. A topographical model depicting cargo handling in the port of Leptis Magna, North Africa (circa 300AD) made in wood and a variety of other materials and painted in realistic colours. The model shows a typical Roman port of the second and third centuries AD on the North African coast. The footprint of the model is rectangular with the quayside on three sides enclosing a small area of harbour water on which are six vessels of various types the largest being a single-masted sailing cargo vessel with a decorative swan’s head stern post. A gangplank is rigged from the quayside to the bows of the ships to enable stevedores to walk to and from them. A tally-clerk is seated at a table at the foot of a gangplank checking items against his lists and another is holding out small sticks to stevedores, which are indications of how much they should be paid at the end of the day. Large blocks of stone are being lifted from a barge by sheer legs, with the lifting purchase taken to a treadmill. The building running along one long side and one short side of the model has two floors, both of which have open galleries along their length, a shallow-pitched tiled roof, and a white-painted balustrade on the first floor. The building is cutaway at the end of its short length to show its construction, internal layout and use. On model ‘Kenneth Britten '79’.