Silchester Roman town walls, Hampshire, UK: view NE through gap in SE wall to St Mary the Virgin church standing on site of two Romano-Celtic temples.
Silchester Roman town walls, Hampshire: view NE through gap in SE wall to St Mary the Virgin's church which stands on the site of two Romano-Celtic temples. An Iron Age tribal centre which, by the end of the C1stAD, became the Roman 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. The earliest Christian church was built using Roman materials, the earliest part of the present church is C12th with C13th & C15th additions.
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Location: Silchester Roman Town, Mortimer West End, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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