Martin Biddle
Author
Series
Winchester studies volume 3
Publisher
Archaeopress Archaeology
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour).
Language
English
Description
Outside the north gate of Venta Belgarum, Roman Winchester, a great cemetary stretched for 500 yards along the road to Cirencester. Excavations at Lankhills from 1967 to 1972 uncovered 451 graves, many elaborately furnished, at the northern limits of this cemetery, and dating from the fourth century A.D. This book, the second in a two-part study of Venta Belgarum, which forms the third volume of Winchester Studies, describes the excavations of these...
Series
Winchester studies volume 8
Publisher
Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xli, 725 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language
English
Description
"Edited by Martin Biddle with a catalogue of the known coins of the mint by Yvonne Harvey, this volume records and illustrates the minting of silver pennies in Winchester between the reigns of Alfred the Great and Henry III, a period of three and a half centuries. At the Mint, which was situated in the area of the High Street to the east of where the city's cross now stands, at least 24 million silver pennies (possibly as many as 50 million) were...