Talk 1: The Origins of Roman Silchester

What:

A series of three talks at Reading Museum & Town Hall, by Professor Michael Fulford CBE, FBA, FSA, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading. Professor Fulford specialises in the British Iron Age, Roman Britain and landscape archaeology.

Reading Museum, with support from the Friends of Reading Museum, have organised the talks to raise funds for the redevelopment of the Silchester Roman Gallery.

Talk 1: The Origins of Roman Silchester

When the Romans invaded Britain in AD 43 they found at Silchester a very large and thriving  community – Calleva. It had economic and political reach stretching from the south of Britain to the Mediterranean.  We will explore Calleva and what we have learned of the lives of its inhabitants from its origins at the end of the 1st century BC up to the time of the Roman conquest.

Who:

Adults