The Masonry Defences of Roman Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum), North Hampshire

Building materials, building styles and the building programme

von J. R. L. Allen

128 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A detailed study of the masonry defences of one of England's most important Roman sites. Erected in c. 270 AD, the masonry walls of the Roman town of Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum; Hampshire, S. England) are part of the third system in a series of defensive works. They stand today to a height of almost 5m and are composed of up to seven lifts or stages, each consisting of a flint core and facing (now almost completely robbed away), capped by a string-course of large blocks and slabs that stretches across the full width (c. 3m) of the walls, formed of a wide variety of rock-types foreign to the district.

• Reihe: BAR British Series
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Archäologie
• ISBN: 9781407311104
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.04.2013
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd