Outside the Town: Roman industry, burial and religion at Augustine House, Rhodaus Town, Canterbury (Canterbury Archaeological Trust Occasional Papers) - Softcover

Helm, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 187054529X ISBN 13: 9781870545297

Publisher: Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2014

Synopsis

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Canterbury Archaeological Trust
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 187054529X
• ISBN 13: 9781870545297
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 158