The Romano-British villa and prehistoric settlement at Low Ham, Somerset
This full publication of the Roman villa at Low Ham, Somerset (UK), brings together for the first time multiple pieces of research undertaken at the site over the past 80 years. Originally discovered in 1945 and famous for its Dido and Aeneas mosaic, work by H S L Dewar and C A Ralegh Radford reveal...
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| author | Roberts, David H Leech, Roger S Cubitt, Rachel |
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| description | This full publication of the Roman villa at Low Ham, Somerset (UK), brings together for the first time multiple pieces of research undertaken at the site over the past 80 years. Originally discovered in 1945 and famous for its Dido and Aeneas mosaic, work by H S L Dewar and C A Ralegh Radford revealed substantial sections of what is now known to be a large courtyard villa. R H Leech carried out landscape and aerial research in the 1970s, and having conferred with the original excavators, began a publication project. Successive geophysical surveys by Historic England in the early 2000s led to further excavation work in 2018, supervised by D Roberts. This volume contains a review of structural findings from the 1940s, the detailed stratigraphic sequence revealed in 2018, and specialist reports on the findings from both campaigns. It puts forward an integrated narrative of the villa structure, contextualises both the Roman and the newly discovered prehistoric archaeology, and includes a synthesis of the material culture and environmental evidence. The authors demonstrate the development of Low Ham from an unenclosed Middle to Late Iron Age settlement, through early Roman enclosure, to the establishment and development of one of the most elaborate and extensive 4th-century AD villas in Britannia. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1708612026-01-16T05:42:45Z The Romano-British villa and prehistoric settlement at Low Ham, Somerset Roberts, David H Leech, Roger S Cubitt, Rachel Roman villa Iron Age settlement mosaics material culture landscape environmental archaeology zooarchaeology Somerset Roman Britain / Britannia thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKD Archaeology by period / region thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3B Prehistory::3BR Iron Age This full publication of the Roman villa at Low Ham, Somerset (UK), brings together for the first time multiple pieces of research undertaken at the site over the past 80 years. Originally discovered in 1945 and famous for its Dido and Aeneas mosaic, work by H S L Dewar and C A Ralegh Radford revealed substantial sections of what is now known to be a large courtyard villa. R H Leech carried out landscape and aerial research in the 1970s, and having conferred with the original excavators, began a publication project. Successive geophysical surveys by Historic England in the early 2000s led to further excavation work in 2018, supervised by D Roberts. This volume contains a review of structural findings from the 1940s, the detailed stratigraphic sequence revealed in 2018, and specialist reports on the findings from both campaigns. It puts forward an integrated narrative of the villa structure, contextualises both the Roman and the newly discovered prehistoric archaeology, and includes a synthesis of the material culture and environmental evidence. The authors demonstrate the development of Low Ham from an unenclosed Middle to Late Iron Age settlement, through early Roman enclosure, to the establishment and development of one of the most elaborate and extensive 4th-century AD villas in Britannia. 2026-01-11T05:06:03Z 2026-01-11T05:06:03Z 2026-01-09T12:44:20Z 2025 book ONIX_20260109T134014_9780854313105_2 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/109705 9780854313105 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/170861 eng Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London open access image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/109705/1/9780854313105.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/109705/1/9780854313105.pdf Society of Antiquaries of London a8870616-eda8-4a8f-a7a8-41cf3142fe0a Historic England Association for the Study and Preservation of Roman Mosaics c1978456-ba61-42e7-b622-b8ec2eac9b99 40904210-e988-453d-bd53-fdd8192e6ba7 913491ab-6574-4276-b4ad-31f4cb642f68 78b1d268-62be-46c0-bb92-56eae82f5f2e 2884ffed-2232-485d-81ff-49713d55bded 18bb1dd7-ee91-48a0-82bb-759d75d6c5f6 9780854313105 344 London [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] open access |
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