The Masonry Defences of Roman Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum), North Hampshire: Building materials, building styles and the building programme

By John R.L. Allen

A detailed study of the masonry defences of one England's most important Roman sites. Erected in c. 270 AD, the masonry walls of the Roman town of Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum; Hampshire, S. England) are part of the third system in a series of defensive works. They stand today to a height of almost 5m and are composed of up to seven lifts or stages, each consisting of a flint core and facing (now almost completely robbed away), capped by a string-course of large blocks and slabs that stretches across the full width (c. 3m) of the walls, formed of a wide variety of rock-types foreign to the district.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1407311107
• ISBN13: 9781407311104
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd
• Length: 113 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.3" x 11.7"