View ENE of south gate of Silchester Roman town, Hampshire, UK. The C3rdAD stone wall turns inwards forming passage to stone archway (L) of late C2nd.
View ENE of south gate of Silchester Roman town, Hampshire. The C3rdAD stone wall turns inwards forming a passage to the stone archway of the late C2nd earthen defences. To the rear, St Mary the Virgin's Church stands on the site of two Romano-Celtic temples just within the town walls. An Iron Age tribal centre which, by the end of the C1stAD, became the Romano-British town of Calleva Atrebatum with a regular grid of streets & public buildings, mainly of timber. Stone walls built c 260-80: a () circuit enclosing some 100 acres (40ha). The town had declined by the start of C5th. Geoffrey of Monmouth claims that King Arthur was crowned here.
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Location: Silchester Roman Town, Mortimer West End, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, UK
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