Outside the town : Roman industry, burial and religion at Augustine House, Rhodaus Town, Canterbury /
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| Author / Creator: | Helm, Richard, Dr., author. |
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| Imprint: | Canterbury : Canterbury Archaeological, Trust [2014] |
| Description: | xiii, 158 pages ; 30 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Canterbury Archaeological Trust occasional paper ; no. 10 Canterbury Archaeological Trust occasional paper ; no. 10. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10140999 |
| Summary: | Outside the Town describes discoveries made between 2006 and 2009 during excavations immediately south-east of Canterbury's Roman town wall. Situated within sight of Watling Street and the main entrance into the town from the Roman port at Dover, the investigations revealed a late Roman shrine along with finds indicative of ritual offerings and associated feasting. Apparently in use over a twenty year period from c AD 340, the shrine was positioned over a late Iron Age inhumation burial which may have originally been marked by a mound, and is one amongst a group of such late Iron Age and early Roman funerary monuments which exist in the vicinity. Four late third-century burials preceded the construction of the shrine, and represent part of an intriguing funerary and religious landscape now emerging. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 158 pages ; 30 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 187054529X 9781870545297 |
