UID:
edocfu_9961491863602883
Format:
1 online resource (1402 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-80327-681-9
Series Statement:
Winchester Studies ; v.3.1
Content:
This is a detailed study of the archaeology of Roman Winchester--Venta Belgarum, a major town in the south of the province of Britannia-- and its development from the regional (civitas) capital of the Iron Age people, the Belgae, who inhabited much of what is now central and southern Hampshire.
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Cover -- Pre-title -- Title Page -- Copyright information page -- CONTRIBUTORS -- GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE -- AUTHOR'S PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- Fragment of an imperial inscription reading … ṆTO … found in Insula VIII. The letters, one Roman foot high (290 mm), are the largest known from Roman Britain (580 x 580 mm -- photograph by John Crook -- © Hampshire Cultural Trust/Winchester City Council). For -- PART 1 -- Illus. 1.1 Winchester from the air in 2017, north to top, showing the line of the Roman town wall (later followed by the medieval city wall) in red (after Ottaway 2017, Fig. 1.3 -- © Hampshire GIS Consortium). -- Illus. 1.2 The location of Winchester in Britain. The boundary of the English county of Hampshire is marked with red dashes. -- Illus. 1.3 The locations of the main towns and peoples of Roman Britain (based on Mattingly 2007, Fig. 10, with revisions). -- Illus. 1.4 Sites excavated by the Winchester Excavations Committee, 1961-71 (1:6250). For a key to the site codes, see Table 1.1. -- PART 2 -- Illus. 2.1 Winchester and the surrounding region: topography (1:500,000 -- WS 10, Illus. 2.1, with additions). The boundary of the county of Hampshire is marked with red dashes. -- Illus. 2.2 The Winchester area showing the main Iron Age and Roman features in relation to the topography. Geographical features mentioned in the main text: 1 Fulflood valley -- 2 Sleeper's Bottom -- 3 West Hill -- 4 Sleeper's Hill -- 5 St Giles's Hill -- 6 Winnall -- Illus. 2.3 Findspots of Palaeolithic stone tools in the Winchester area. Places mentioned in the main text are labelled. -- Illus. 2.4 Findspots of Mesolithic stone tools in the Winchester area. -- Illus. 2.5 Neolithic sites and finds in the Winchester area. Sites and findspots mentioned in the main text: 1 Longwood House -- 2 Morestead Warren -- 3 St Swithun's School.
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4 Winnall Down -- 5 Barton Farm -- 6 Burntwood Farm -- 7 South Winchester Park and Ride -- 8 -- Illus. 2.6 Beaker and Early Bronze Age sites and finds in the Winchester area. Sites mentioned in the main text: 1 Twyford Down -- 2 Easton Lane -- 3 Easton Down -- 4 Mews Lane -- 5 Kings Worthy -- 6 Barton Farm -- 7 Rowlings Road. -- Illus. 2.7 Middle and Late Bronze Age sites and finds in the Winchester area. Sites mentioned in the main text: 1 Easton Lane -- 2 Winnall Down -- 3 Winnall Allotments -- 4 Twyford Down -- 5 South Winchester Park and Ride -- 6 Tower Street. -- Illus. 2.8 Early Iron Age sites and finds in the Winchester area. Sites mentioned in the main text are labelled. -- Illus. 2.9 Iron Age Winchester. -- Illus. 2.10 The later Middle Iron Age Oram's Arbour enclosure (1:4000). Numbered observations of the enclosure ditch are listed in the appendix on pp. 49-50. -- Illus. 2.11 Winchester (Venta Belgarum) and the surrounding region in the Roman period (1:500,000 -- based on data from the Ordnance Survey map of Roman Britain, fifth edition (2001) and Allen et al. 2015). -- Illus. 2.12 Roman Winchester by c. A.D. 90. -- Illus. 2.13 Roman Winchester: the insulae. -- Illus. 2.14 Roman Winchester by c.350, including all known observations of significant Roman buildings (1:6250). Not all buildings shown were necessarily standing c.350. For details, see Part 4, Gazetteer 3, below, pp. 510-64. For the Roman street numbers -- Illus. 2.15 Roman Winchester with its suburbs and cemeteries by c.350 (1:10,000). For a more detailed plan of the northern suburb and cemetery, see Illus. A.2. -- Illus. 2.16 Roman Winchester by c.350, showing areas of known buildings and other features in the context of the street plan: east-west streets 1-5 -- north-south streets A-H.
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Illus. 2.17 The late Roman cemetery at Lankhills as excavated in 1971, looking east-south-east. The dark strip across the middle is the ditch (F. 12) which marked the original eastern boundary of the cemetery. After c.350 burials extended eastwards over a -- Illus. 2.18 Winchester c.410-650. ACS, Assize Courts South 1963-5 -- BR, The Brooks, Middle Brook Street, 1987-8 -- BS, Lower Brook Street 1965-71 -- CG, Cathedral Green 1962-70 -- SLH, The Slaughter House, St George's Street, 1957 -- SMCW, St Martin's Close, Winna -- Illus. 2.19 Early Anglo-Saxon (fifth to seventh centuries) sites and finds in the Winchester area (excluding the walled area of Winchester, see Illus. 2.18). Sites mentioned in the main text: 1 St Martin's Close, Winnall -- 2 Francis Gardens, Abbotts Barton -- Illus. 2.20 Winchester and the Itchen Valley in the fifth to seventh centuries (excluding sites and finds from within the walled area of Winchester, cf. Illus. 2.18). Some closely situated isolated finds have been plotted with a single symbol, cf. Illus. -- Illus. 2.21 Winchester: the Roman street plan overlain by the Anglo-Saxon street-plan of the mid to late ninth century (1:6250). For information about the development of the Anglo-Saxon streets, see Biddle 2017b, 27-9, and Biddle 2020. -- PART 3 -- Illus. 3.1 Key to the conventions used on sections in Part 3. On the sections for Castle Yard, Cathedral Car Park, Cathedral Green, Wolvesey, Lower Brook Street, and Assize Courts South, medieval and later layers have been left plain or omitted, allowing -- Illus. 3.2 Tower Street 1964, site plan, showing the line of the former western wall of the Roman town and medieval city, with the lines of the published sections in red (1:400). -- Illus. 3.3 Tower Street 1960, section west-east through the Roman defences (Cunliffe 1962, Fig. 3, re-scaled to 1:100.
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© Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society). -- Illus. 3.4 Tower Street 1964, general view, looking south-east from Sussex Street (cf. Illus. 1.4) across the wide hollow of the infilled and grassed-over medieval city ditch towards Trench V (in the shaded area below the tree, centre-left) and the west e -- Illus. 3.5 Tower Street 1964, plan of Trenches VII, VIII, X, XI, XIII, and XIV, showing later Middle Iron Age features (F.ph. 2), including a square setting of four post-pits (Post-holes 34, 36, 38, and 42) offset to the west within a circular gully and o -- Illus. 3.6 Tower Street 1964, Trenches VII, VIII, X, XI, XIII, and XIV, looking south-west, showing the later Middle Iron Age (F.ph. 2) square setting of four post-pits (Post-holes 34, 36, 38, and 42 -- marked out by three of the ranging rods) set within a -- Page 117 Page 118 Page 119 -- Illus. 3.9 -- Page 114 Page 115 Page 116 -- Illus. 3.8 -- Page 114 Page 115 Page 116 -- Illus. 3.7 -- Illus. 3.7 (Pages 114-16) Tower Street 1964, Trench I/VI south face, section east-west through the Roman defences (1:50). -- Illus. 3.8 (Pages 114-16) Tower Street 1964, Trench II south face, section east-west through the Roman defences (1:50). -- Illus. 3.9 (Pages 117-19) Tower Street 1964, Trench III/IV south face, section east-west through the Roman defences (1:50). -- Illus. 3.11 Tower Street 1964, Trench III, the turf revetment to the rear of the chalk and flint layered foundation of Rampart I (F.ph. 4) (cf. Illus. 3.9), looking south. Ranging rod in feet (3289).
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Illus. 3.10 Tower Street 1964, Trench III, the turf-revetted and chalk and flint layered foundation of Rampart I (F.ph. 4) (cf. Illus. 3.9), looking south-west. Ranging rod in feet (3308). -- Illus. 3.12 Tower Street 1964, Trench III, Roman Ramparts I and II (F.ph. 4 and 5 -- cf. Illus. 3.9), looking south-east. The turf revetment to the rear of the layered chalk and flint foundation at the front of Rampart I is lower right. To the left, the bro -- Illus. 3.13 Tower Street 1964, Trench II, a preserved portion of the rear (east) face of the Roman town wall (F.ph. 7 -- cf. Illus. 3.8), looking south-west. The wall is set on the chalk and flint foundation at the front (west) of Roman Rampart I (F.ph. 4). -- Illus. 3.14 Tower Street 1964, Trench IX, west-east section through the front of the Roman defences. The mid to late ninth-century? gully (F.ph. 8, filled with Layer 8) is visible at the base of the Roman town wall (1:25). -- Illus. 3.15 Tower Street 1964, Trench IX, the front of the Roman defences, looking north. For explanation of visible features, see Illus. 3.14. Ranging rod in feet (C3147B). -- Illus. 3.16 Castle Avenue (CA), Castle Yard (CY), Assize Courts (ACN, ACS, and ACD), and Trafalgar House (TH), plan showing the course of the south ditch of the later Middle Iron Age Oram's Arbour enclosure (for a complete plan, see Illus. 2.10), the earl -- Illus. 3.17 Castle Avenue (CA), Castle Yard (CY), Assize Courts (ACN, ACS, and ACD), and Trafalgar House (TH), plan showing the course of the south ditch of the later Middle Iron Age Oram's Arbour enclosure and of the medieval defences of Winchester Castl -- Illus. 3.18 Castle Yard 1967-71, plan showing in red the lines of the five published sections. The site grid is in feet (1:300).
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Illus. 3.19 Castle Yard 1968, general view, looking north-west (cf. Illus. 3.18). The rear of the Roman town wall (Wall 13 with Wall 14.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Morris, Francis M. Venta Belgarum: Prehistoric, Roman, and Post-Roman Winchester Oxford : Archaeopress,c2023
Language:
English
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