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oapen-20.500.12657-474942021-07-21T04:18:56Z The excavation of the Roman villa in Gadebridge Park, Hemel Hempstead, 1963-8 Neal, David S. Excavation; archaeology; Roman; villa; bath-house; pottery bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HD Archaeology::HDL Landscape archaeology bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HD Archaeology::HDD Archaeology by period / region bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HD Archaeology::HDD Archaeology by period / region::HDDK Classical Greek & Roman archaeology This is an account of excavations of the Roman villa in Gadebridge Park, Hemel Hempstead, which took place in 1963–8. It describes the history of a villa from its simple beginnings in the first century A.D. to its heyday in the fourth century when the owner could boast one of the largest villa bath houses and a bathing pool comparable in size to the Great Bath at Bath. In the mid-fourth century disaster struck. The coin evidence shows that the villa came to an abrupt end and that in or about A.D. 353 it may have been demolished as a result of reprisals against the owner for his support of the rebellion by Magnentius. 2021-03-22T13:45:47Z 2021-03-22T13:45:47Z 1974 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47494 eng Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London application/pdf n/a SAL_RR_vol_31_Gadebridge.pdf www.sal.org.uk/publications Society of Antiquaries of London 10.26530/20.500.12657/47494 10.26530/20.500.12657/47494 d42419c2-5275-411b-8855-aed87bed3f71 XXXI 340 London open access
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This is an account of excavations of the Roman villa in Gadebridge Park, Hemel Hempstead, which took place in 1963–8. It describes the history of a villa from its simple beginnings in the first century A.D. to its heyday in the fourth century when the owner could boast one of the largest villa bath houses and a bathing pool comparable in size to the Great Bath at Bath. In the mid-fourth century disaster struck. The coin evidence
shows that the villa came to an abrupt end and that in or about A.D. 353 it may have been demolished as a result of reprisals against the owner for his support
of the rebellion by Magnentius.
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