Category: Historic

A deeper dive into the historical perspectives on our streets

Chichester & St Bart’s: The Early Settlement

The extent of Chichester has altered at various times.

The settlement was first established as a winter fort for the Second Augustan Legion under Vespasian (the future emperor) shortly after the Roman invasion in AD 43. Like all Roman walled towns, Noviomagus Reginorum was divided into four quarters by two main roads or streets crossing approximately in the middle of the town. The public baths are beneath West Street, the amphitheatre under the cattle market and the basilica is thought to be beneath the cathedral.

Continue reading Chichester & St Bart’s: The Early Settlement

Medieval Westgate

Image courtesy of Chichester Web. This article forms the third in a series on the archaeology of Westgate and is adapted with their permission from an archaeological desk-based assessment prepared by SLR Consulting Ltd on behalf of Chichester College in 2013. The numbers on the map refer to objects mentioned in the text below that have been found and registered in the Historic Environment Record (HER) for Chichester District. 

Continue reading Medieval Westgate

The Romans and Westgate

This article forms the second in a series on the archaeology of Westgate and is adapted with their permission from an archaeological desk-based assessment prepared by SLR Consulting Ltd on behalf of Chichester College in 2013. The numbers on the map refer to objects mentioned in the text below that have been found and registered in the Historic Environment Record (HER) for Chichester District.

Continue reading The Romans and Westgate

Prehistoric Westgate

This article forms the first in a series on the archaeology of Westgate and is adapted with their permission from an archaeological desk-based assessment prepared by SLR Consulting Ltd on behalf of Chichester College in 2013. The numbers on the above map refer to objects mentioned in the text below that have been found and registered in the Historic Environment Record (HER) for Chichester District.

Palaeolithic Period (c 500,000 – c 10,500 BP)

Continue reading Prehistoric Westgate

A brief archaeology of Westgate

This brief article introduces a monthly series of four on the archaeology of Westgate. These four pages may be accessed via the  underlined titles. The data has been adapted, with their permission, from the findings of an archaeological desk-based assessment prepared within a 500 metre radius of Chichester College by SLR Consulting Ltd in 2013. Hence the funny box on the maps.

Continue reading A brief archaeology of Westgate

error: Content is protected !!