Download or read book The Roman Amphitheatre of Chester written by Tony Wilmott and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a definitive publication on the structural history of, and finds from the largest and most impressive amphitheatre of Roman Britain, situated within one of the original 1st century AD legionary fortresses. It also presents evidence for Mesolithic-Iron Age occupation of the site.

Download or read book The Roman Amphitheatre of Chester written by Tony Wilmott and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first of two volumes dealing with the major research excavations on the Chester Amphitheatre in 2004-2006. The amphitheatre was discovered in 1929 and partially excavated in the 1970s, after which the northern half was laid out as a public monument. This fully integrated volume tells the story of the site from the Mesolithic to the end of the life of the amphitheatre. It contains full stratigraphic and structural detail, including CGI reconstruction of Amphitheatre 2, artefactual and ecofactual evidence, and takes account of the findings of all excavations on the site since 1929. A second volume will deal with the robbing and reuse of the amphitheatre in the post Roman period, and the development of the medieval and post-medieval urban landscape of the site"--

Download or read book The Roman Amphitheatre of Chester written by Tony Wilmott and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first of two volumes dealing with the major research excavations on the Chester Amphitheatre in 2004-2006. The amphitheatre was discovered in 1929 and partially excavated in the 1970s, after which the northern half was laid out as a public monument. This fully integrated volume tells the story of the site from the Mesolithic to the end of the life of the amphitheatre. It contains full stratigraphic and structural detail, including CGI reconstruction of Amphitheatre 2, artefactual and ecofactual evidence, and takes account of the findings of all excavations on the site since 1929. A second volume will deal with the robbing and reuse of the amphitheatre in the post Roman period, and the development of the medieval and post-medieval urban landscape of the site"--

Download or read book The Roman amphitheatre at Chester written by Chester and North Wales Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Roman Amphitheatre at Chester written by R. Newstead and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Roman Amphitheatre in Britain written by Tony Wilmott and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of all the Roman amphitheatres in Britain draws on the recent excavations at Chester, London and Silchester. Wilmott describes every ampitheatre, amphitheatre-type structure and mixed theatre/amphitheatre structure in Roman Britain.

Download or read book The Excavation of the Roman Amphitheatre at Chester written by Frederick Hugh Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Chester Amphitheatre written by Stewart Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Roman Amphitheatres and Spectacula a 21st century Perspective written by Tony Wilmott and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers from the conference held by The Friends of the Whithorn Trust in Whithorn on September 15th 2007 This book includes papers from the international conference held at Chester, England, in February 2007 on Roman Amphitheatres and Spectacular.

Download or read book Roman Amphitheatre Chester written by Great Britain. Department of the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Roman Chester written by David J. P. Mason and published by Arcadia Publishing (SC). This book was released on 2001 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Roman Chester

Download or read book The Roman Imperial Army of the First and Second Centuries A D written by Graham Webster and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work of scholarship scrutinizes all aspects of Roman military forces throughout the Roman Empire, in Europe, North Africa, and the Near and Middle East. Graham Webster describes the Roman army’s composition, frontier systems, camps and forts, activities in the field (including battle tactics, signaling, and medical services), and peacetime duties, as well as the army’s overall influence in the Empire. First published in 1969, the work is corrected and expanded in this third edition, which includes new information from excavations and the finding of contemporary scholars. Hugh Elton provides an introduction surveying scholarship on the Roman army since the last edition of 1985.

Download or read book The Story of the Roman Amphitheatre written by David Bomgardner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughly corrected, updated and enlarged edition illuminates the epic story of the birth, early development, widespread flourishing and slow decline of that most typical Roman monument, the amphitheatre. This lucid and accessible work, lavishly illustrated with plans and photographs, breaks new ground with the incorporation of sociological, psychological, historical and even ecological material into the study of the amphitheatre. This edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, including a new interpretation of the phasing of the Pompeii amphitheatre as well as inclusion of the latest information on the other amphitheatres in this monograph. This volume is a valuable reference work for students and scholars of Roman history and architecture, and this new updated edition will bring this topic to a new generation of readers.

Download or read book The Chicken Book written by Page Smith and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberating today's chicken from cartoons, fast food, and other demeaning associations, The Chicken Book at once celebrates and explains this noble fowl. As it traces the rise and fall of Gallus domesticus from the jungles of ancient India to the assembly-line hatcheries sprawled across modern America, this original, frequently astounding book passes along a trove of knowledge and lore about everything from the chicken's biology and behavior to its place in legend and mythology. The book includes lively discussions of the chicken's role in literature and history, the cruel attractions of cockfighting, the medicinal uses of eggs and chicken parts, the details of the egg-laying process, the basics of the backyard coop, recipes, and much more. Entertaining and insightful, The Chicken Book will change the way we regard this too often underappreciated animal.

Download or read book The Story of the Roman Amphitheatre written by David Bomgardner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman amphitheatre was a site both of bloody combat and marvellous spectacle, symbolic of the might of Empire; to understand the importance of the amphitheatre is to understand a key element in the social and political life of the Roman ruling classes. Generously illustrated with 141 plans and photographs, The Story of the Roman Amphitheatre offers a comprehensive picture of the origins, development, and eventual decline of the most typical and evocative of Roman monuments. With a detailed examination of the Colosseum, as well as case studies of significant sites from Italy, Gaul, Spain and Roman North Africa, the book is a fascinating gazetteer for the general reader as well as a valuable tool for students and academics.