Paperback / softback
Description
Outside the Town describes discoveries made between 2006 and 2009 during excavations immediately south-east of Canterbury's Roman town wall.
Situated within sight of Watling Street and the main entrance into the town from the Roman port at Dover, the investigations revealed a late Roman shrine along with finds indicative of ritual offerings and associated feasting.
Apparently in use over a twenty year period from c AD 340, the shrine was positioned over a late Iron Age inhumation burial which may have originally been marked by a mound, and is one amongst a group of such late Iron Age and early Roman funerary monuments which exist in the vicinity.
Four late third-century burials preceded the construction of the shrine, and represent part of an intriguing funerary and religious landscape now emerging.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:158 pages, fully colour illustrated
- Publisher:Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd
- Publication Date:31/07/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9781870545297
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:158 pages, fully colour illustrated
- Publisher:Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd
- Publication Date:31/07/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9781870545297
