Outside the north gate ofVenta Belgarum , Roman Winchester, a great cementary stretched for 500 yards along the road to Cirencester. Excavations at Lankhills from 1967 to 1972 uncovered 451 graves, many elaborately furnished, at the northern limits of this cemetery, and dating from the fourth century A.D. This book, the second in a two-part study of iVenta Belgarum, which forms the third volume of Winchester Studies, describes the excavations of these burials and analyses in detail both the graves and their contents - perhaps the richest single group of fourth century objects yet found in Britain. There are detailed studies and important re-assessments of many categories of object, but it is the information about late Roman burial, religion, and society which is of special interest.
- ISBN10 0198131771
- ISBN13 9780198131779
- Publish Date 28 February 1979
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 October 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 510
- Language English