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English: Romano-British Town House, Dorchester, Dorset, 6 September 2019. The first buildings were built in AD 307 and extended AD 341 and abandoned in the late 4th/early 5th Centuries after the Roman retreat from Britain. The house comprises the only exposed remains of a Roman town house in Britain.
Remains of a Roman town house in Dorchester. Burial of Durotriges was by inhumation, with a last ritual meal provided even under exiguous circumstances, as in the eight burials at Maiden Castle, carried out immediately after the Roman attack. Most Durotrigian burials are laid down in crouched positions within shallow, oval graves.
A large late-Roman and Christian cemetery has been excavated at Poundbury just to the west of the town, but little is known of Durnovaria's decline after the departure of the Roman administration. The name, however, survived to become the Anglo-Saxon Dornwaraceaster and modern 'Dorchester'. The residents of modern day Dorchester are known as ...
Whoa: Roman love letters and so many sandals The roller coaster, 70-mile-long turf and stone wall that Hadrian built coast to coast across northern England is a multi-site, must-visit Roman ...
The Roman Town House in Dorchester is a Roman ruin within Colliton Park, Dorchester, Dorset, England. Dorset County Council acquired Colliton Park in 1933 as the site for the construction of County Hall. The Town House was discovered in 1937/38 during an archaeological investigation carried out by the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological ...
Roman pottery and human remains have been unearthed during the installation of an underground substation in Exeter city centre. National Grid said the project to replace ageing infrastructure saw ...
Archaeologists found a 2,000-year-old Roman camp 7,000 feet up in the Swiss Alps, ... Getty Images. Archaeologists researching a battlefield in Switzerland discovered a Roman military camp 7,000 ...
Roman Town House, Dorchester; T. Town Walks, Dorchester This page was last edited on 7 October 2019, at 21:01 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...