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East Anglian Archaeology Monograph- EAA 83: Excavations to the South of Chignall Roman Villa, Essex

C. P. Clarke

  • Categorie: Geschiedenis
  • EAN: 9781852811617
1977-81
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Taal:en
Bindwijze:Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum:31 december 1998
Aantal pagina's:153
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Hoofdauteur:C. P. Clarke
Hoofduitgeverij:Essex County Council, Archaeology Section
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Excavations from 197781 within a ten hectare area south of the scheduled villa at Chignall St James, showed continuous development from a Middle Iron Age settlement into a prosperous Roman estate. Unusually high proportions of cattle bone indicate the centrality of stock-keeping in the site's economy throughout the Roman period. It is inferred that a late Roman cemetery is the burial ground for a group of coloni. The villa, known to have had a bath-house in the late 1st century, appears to have been unenclosed until the 3rd century. This hexagonal enclosure later influenced the alignment of an early medieval narrow-rig field system.