Silchester Roman Town Insula IX: The Development of an Urban Property c. AD 40-50 - c. AD 250

A. Clarke, M.G. Fulford, M. Rains and K. Tootell

With contributions by D. Allen, E. Besly, N. Crummy, K. Hayward, C. Ingrem, M. Lewis, M. Robinson, J. Timby, P. Tyers, P. Warry and S. Williams

Department of Archaeology, School of Human and Environmental Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 227, RG6 6AB. Email: a.s.clarke@reading.ac.uk

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Reconstruction of Masonry Buildings 1 and 2 from the south. Copyright: Margaret Matthews.

The development of an urban property in the Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester, Hampshire, England) is traced from the late 1st to the mid-3rd century AD. Three successive periods of building with their associated finds of artefacts and biological remains are described and interpreted with provisional reconstructions of the buildings. Links are provided to a copy of the Integrated Archaeological Database (IADB), archived by the Archaeology Data Service, which holds the primary excavation and finds records.

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This article will appeal to: those interested in the development of urbanism in Roman Britain and the western Roman empire in the 1st to 3rd century AD as well as the development of individual properties and the relationship between the individual buildings and their associated finds of artefacts and biological remains, particularly animal and human bone and plant remains.
Keywords: Roman; Britain; town; Silchester; town-house; 1st-3rd century AD; artefacts; biological finds

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