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Books
: Facing the Palace (Fishbourne Excavations 1995-99)
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Facing the Palace - uncover a new chapter in the story of Fishbourne Roman Palace
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The discovery in the 1960s of a palatial building of the Roman period just outside Chichester, Sussex (UK), was one of the highlights of archaeology in the 20th century. The Palace was constructed around AD75, almost certainly as the residence of a client king called Tiberius Claudius Togidubnus. The Palace was built around a formal, central garden, and many commentators imagined that the approaches to the Palace would be similarly landscaped. In addition, the construction of the Palace brought to an end a sequence of earlier building phases, the earliest of which seemed to date to the year of the invasion in AD43. Our excavations took place just in front of the Palace and began in 1995, with the final six-week season taking place in 1999.
The main results of our excavations overturned the orthodox views outlined above in two ways:
· The area in front of the Palace was heavily built-up – not ‘landscaped’ at all
· The first definitive evidence was found for a heavily-romanised Late Iron Age presence at Fishbourne – perhaps the royal centre of a client-kingdom, or a pre-AD43 outpost of soldiers or traders??
In 160 pages of text, plus an equally long digital supplement, including 232 line drawings, 55 black and white photographs; 17 colour plates and 76 tables, and a full-cover colour the book is a snip at £14.99 (plus postage and packing).
Discover a new chapter in the history of Fishbourne Roman Palace and a fresh insight into the archaeology of Roman Britain.
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