Ten years in the planning and with contributions by 27 expert authors, this is a comprehensive record of archaeological research at Chedworth Roman Villa, Gloucestershire (now in the care of the National Trust), from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries.\nThe volume brings together a large body of new, contextualized information about the villa including: a history of work at Chedworth from the 1860s to the present; a detailed fabric survey of the extant remains; description and analysis of the Roman structural remains; description and analysis of the decorative elements (e.g. mosaics, sculpture) and finds (e.g. coins, Roman artifacts, glass, pottery, and bones); discussion of the development of the villa and its place in the landscape; the consolidation and display of the villa from its discovery in 1864 to the present. The volume is well illustrated with drawings and photos ranging in date from the late 1800s to the present.\nThe volume will appeal to all with an interest in Roman Britain, and Roman villas in particular, and in the antiquarians who first discovered and investigated them.\nTable of Contents\nCHAPTER 1. A HISTORY OF WORK AT AND PUBLICATION ON CHEDWORTH 
1864: The Villa Uncovered 
1864–1924: Conservation and Publication 
1924–57: The Early National Trust Years 
1957–65: Sir Ian Richmond 
1966–2010: Targeting Problems\nCHAPTER 2. FABRIC SURVEY AND ANALYSIS (Jason Wood) 
Introduction 
Description and Analysis 
South range 
West range 
West baths 
Room 17: nymphaeum 
North baths and north range 
Cross gallery 
Discussion 
Roman 
Victorian 
First half of twentieth century 
Second half of twentieth century\nCHAPTER 3. THE ROMAN STRUCTURAL REMAINS 
Introduction 
The South Range 
The West Range 
The Nymphaeum (Room 17) 
The North Range 
The Cross Gallery 
The Areas Around the Main Villa Buildings 
Water Management 
Appendix 
Excavations at Chedworth Roman Villa, 1977 (Ron Shoesmith and Tim Copeland) 
Excavations at Chedworth Roman Villa by the University of Sheffield 2000–2002 (Maureen Carroll)\nCHAPTER 4. THE DECORATIVE ELEMENTS AND FINDS 
Introduction 
The Mosaics (S.R. Cosh) 
The Sculptured Stone (Martin Henig) 
The Architectural Stone (Kevin Hayward) 
The Marble (Susan Walker) 
Plaster and Mortar (Emma Durham with J.R.L. Allen) 
Ceramic Building Material (Peter Warry) 
The Worked Flint (Richard Bradley) 
Roman Small Finds (Emma Durham with Martin Henig) 
Post-Roman Finds (Emma Durham) 
The Vessel Glass (Emma Durham) 
The Window Glass (Emma Durham) 
Reports Prepared by Wessex Archaeology 
The coins (Nicholas Cooke) 
Metalwork (Grace Perpetua Jones with Phil Andrews and Martin Henig) 
Worked bone (Lorraine Mepham) 
Shale/jet (Lorraine Mepham) 
Glass (Lorraine Mepham) 
Pottery (Rachael Seager Smith) 
Ceramic building material (Rachael Seager Smith) 
Animal bone (R. Billson) 
Overview of the Coins (Simon Esmonde Cleary) 
Overview of the Small Finds (Emma Durham) 
Overview of the Pottery (Jane Timby with Joanna Bird) 
The Infant Burials (Anna Rohnbogner) 
Overview of the Animal Remains (Claire Ingrem)\nCHAPTER 5. CHEDWORTH ROMAN VILLA 
Pre-Roman Activity 
The Origins and Structural Development of the Villa 
The ‘Developed Villa’ 
Decline and Fall: The End of the Villa and After\nCHAPTER 6. CHEDWORTH, THE COTSWOLDS AND VILLA CULTURE 
Landscapes of Production and Prestige 
Chedworth and Villas in the Locality 
Chedworth and Rich Villas in the Cotswolds and Britain 
Chedworth and Late Roman Aristocratic Behaviour\nCHAPTER 7. REIMAGINING THE VILLA SINCE 1864 
Farrer, Eldon and the Consolidation and Display of the Villa 1864–1870 
Landscape Management 1864–2010 (Rupert Goulding) 
Torpor to the Trust: the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 
After World War II: Half a Century of Exploration and Presentation 
Reconstructions of the Villa 
The Development of the Heritage Lottery Fund Bids and the New Cover-Building, 1994–2012 (Julie Reynolds) 
‘The Honoured Guest’: Interpreting the Chedworth Roman Villa to Modern Visitors (Peter Salway)\nBibliography 
Index

Chedworth Roman Villa: Excavations and Re-imaginings from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries (Britannia Monographs)

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Wood, Jason

Cleary, Professor Simon Esmonde

Durham, Emma

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