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Chedworth: Life in a Roman Villa

English

By (author): Simon Cleary

Chedworth is one of the few Roman villas in Britain whose remains are open to the public, and this book seeks to explain what these remains mean. The fourth century in Britain was a golden age and at the time the Cotswolds were the richest area of Roman Britain. The wealthy owners of a villa such as Chedworth felt themselves part of an imperial Roman aristocracy. This is expressed at the villa in the layout of the buildings, rooms for receiving guests and for grand dining, the provision of baths, and the use of mosaics. The villa would also have housed the wife, family and household of the owner and been the centre of an agricultural estate. In the nineteenth century Chedworth was rediscovered, and part of the villas tale is the way in which it was viewed by a nineteenth-century Cotswold landowner, Lord Eldon, and then its current owners, the National Trust. Now, in this remarkable and beautifully illustrated volume, Chedworths story is told in full.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Apr 2013
  • Publisher: The History Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780752486437

About Simon Cleary

DR SIMON ESMONDE CLEARY holds degrees in archaeology from the universities of London and Oxford and is currently Professor of Roman Archaeology at the University of Birmingham. His interests and publications focus on the later Roman period and he has excavated in both Britain and France on sites of this period.

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