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Outside the Town describes discoveries made between 2006 and 2009 during excavations immediately south-east of Canterbury's Roman town wall. Situated within sight of Watling Street and the main entrance into the town from the Roman port at Dover, the investigations revealed a late Roman shrine along with finds indicative of ritual offerings and associated feasting. Apparently in use over a twenty year period from c AD 340, the shrine was positioned over a late Iron Age inhumation burial which may have originally been marked by a mound, and is one amongst a group of such late Iron Age and early Roman funerary monuments which exist in the vicinity. Four late third-century burials preceded the construction of the shrine, and represent part of an intriguing funerary and religious landscape now emerging.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Outside the Town
• Author: Richard Helm
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 158
• EAN: 9781870545297
• ISBN: 187054529X
• ID: 05147579
• Publisher: Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd
• Weight: 692 g
• Dimensions: 296 × 211 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. July 2014

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