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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Windgather Press,
[2021].
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.