Talk 3: Silchester: The End of the Roman City

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 3: Silchester: The End of the Roman City

The city was provided with a massive 1.5 mile long (2.4km) defensive wall towards the end of the third century and, though we can show significant changes, it continued to thrive until the beginning of the fifth century when Britain was abandoned by Rome and the city, like others, lost its rationale. Nevertheless, despite signs of violence and insecurity, with deposits of coins and metalwork being hidden away, incomers, like Tebicatos from Ireland, continued to choose Calleva as their home and left their mark in their own, Ogham script.

Who:

Adults