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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 ...
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'.
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.
Dorchester (/ ˈ d ɔːr tʃ ɛ s t ər / DOR-ches-tər) is the county town of Dorset, England.It is situated between Poole and Bridport on the A35 trunk route. A historic market town, Dorchester is on the banks of the River Frome to the south of the Dorset Downs and north of the South Dorset Ridgeway that separates the area from Weymouth, 7 miles (11 km) to the south.
The gladiators of Roman Britain feature in the touring exhibition, starting at Dorset Museum. ... Exhibits include finds from the town's Maumbury Rings - a Neolithic henge transformed into a Roman ...
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.
The Town Walks are registered at Grade II on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens; [1] the corresponding Roman walls are a scheduled monument. [ 3 ] The Walks follow the west and south sides, and part of the north and east sides, of the original rectangular defences.
Excavations along Charles Street during the 1980s and in 1990 identified a Roman town house, and during the excavation the opus signinum floors and foundations of the town house were removed to be preserved at the Dorset County Museum; the burial site of two infant children was also identified, suggesting the site lay within the town walls of ...