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Chedworth Roman Villa

Excavations and Re-imaginings from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries

Jason Wood author Simon Esmonde Cleary author Emma Durham author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

Published:19th May '22

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Ten years in the planning and with contributions by 27 expert authors, this is a comprehensive record of archaeological research at Chedworth Roman Villa, Gloucestershire (now in the care of the National Trust), from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries.   The volume brings together a large body of new, contextualised information about the villa including: a history of work at Chedworth from the 1860s to the present; a detailed fabric survey of the extant remains; description and analysis of the Roman structural remains; description and analysis of the decorative elements (e.g. mosaics, sculpture) and finds (e.g. coins, Roman artefacts, glass, pottery and bones); discussion of the development of the villa and its place in the landscape; the consolidation and display of the villa from its discovery in 1864 to the present. The volume is well illustrated with drawings and photos ranging in date from the late 1800s to the present.   The volume will appeal to all with an interest in Roman Britain, and Roman villas in particular, and in the antiquarians who first discovered and investigated them.

[T]he volume is coherently structured and contains helpful lists of figures and tables, as well as a comprehensive index. * Transactions (Bristol and Gloucestershire Arch Soc *

ISBN: 9780907764496

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626 pages