Silchester Roman Walls in Hampshire

There is an ancient Roman town with heritage ruins, this town continued until around the 5th or 6th century, was abandoned when the Roman Empire sank, return to dust and found again in the 19th century by excavation, the site’s name is “Silchester Roman Walls”.

Access to Silchester Roman Walls by car; set the postcode as RG7 2HP, the site is between the M3 and M4 motorways, about 13miles from Reading.

This town was rebuilt by Romans in AD43 after being conquered by the Roman Emperor Claudius. In Iron age Britain the village , all were haystack houses was thre, these were replaced by advanced Roman civilisation insula apartments, they brought water supply and drains.

There were British hardy brute courage people to regist Roman army.But they had no leadership, no collaboration, individually strong but had no team work, like the Roman army has great leadership and team work, they fell swooped upon by the organised Roman army at once.

This SIlchester site is about 2.2 miles in diameter, a huge yard, in the Roman era AD43 to the 5th or 6th century it propagated a big town, after the Romans left, the site has been run-down.

This was the North Gate site, there used to be a Roman gate guard to check out all accessing people.

Now is good walking course.

There were entertainment centres as well, for example a Colosseum. Now there still remains a half broken down Colosseum.

There is also a 12 century Church and a graveyard around the Church.

Light and shadow