Silchester revealed : the Iron Age and Roman town of Calleva /

With its apparently complete town plan, revealed by the Society of Antiquaries of London's great excavation project, 1890-1909, Silchester is one of the best known towns in Roman Britain and the Roman world more widely. Since the 1970s excavations by the author and the University of Reading on...

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Main Author: Fulford, Michael (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Oxford : Windgather Press, 2021
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505 0 |a Cover -- Book title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Discovering Calleva -- Uncovering the town -- New techniques -- What next? -- And then and#x2026; -- 2 Beginnings: the late Iron Age Royal Centre of Calleva -- Early defences, early settlement -- The earliest inhabitants -- Crafts and agriculture -- Trade networks -- Calleva in context -- 3 Caratacus, the Roman conquest, Nero and Calleva -- An unusual building -- Nero and Calleva -- Elsewhere in Calleva -- Over in Insula IX -- The Silchester Eagle -- Eating and drinking in Insula IX -- The Roman town takes shape -- 4 From town to city: Calleva, a regional centre -- No change on Insula IX -- The first forum basilica -- The baths -- A mansio -- Temples -- Private properties -- Back to Insula IX -- 5 The 2nd century: Calleva at its peak -- Water and waste -- Homes and gardens -- Urban economy -- Town and country -- Life and death -- 6 Calleva defended -- Labour and materials -- More changes -- 7 Late Roman Calleva -- A church? -- Town houses -- Smaller buildings -- 8 Living in late Roman Calleva -- Food and drink -- Breeding and growing -- Craft and industry -- Transport and economy -- Dogs and cats -- Ritual practices -- 9 The end -- Increasing insecurity -- The house of Tebicatos -- Where did all the people go? -- Medieval Silchester -- Postscript -- Further information and reading -- Index -- Back Cover. 
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