Excavations at the Iron Age and Roman Town at Silchester, Hampshire: managing change in the 1st Century AD.

Excavations have been ongoing each summer since 1997 in insula IX to explore in detail the occupation of a typical insula of the Roman town (Calleva Atrebatum) from its origins in the late Iron Age to its abandonment between the mid-5th and the mid-7th Century AD.  The lecture will review the progress and highlights of the project which has reached down to the 1st Century AD where it will focus on the fascinating evidence of the town’s response to the Roman occupation of Southern Britain.

Professor Michael Fulford FBA, FSA
Department of Archaeology
University of Reading

YPS Lecture

Joint lecture with the York Archaeological Trust