🏛️ Calleva
Romano-British settlement near Silchester, Hampshire
📌 Fast Facts
- Roman town occupied c. 50–410 CE, with Iron Age settlement preceding it
- Located near modern Silchester, Hampshire, England
- Extensive earthworks and defensive walls remain visible above ground
- Excavated intermittently from 1890 onwards; systematic work halted in the 1980s
Calleva was a major Romano-British town in southern England, serving as the tribal capital of the Atrebates during the Roman period. The settlement emerged from an earlier Iron Age oppidum and developed into a structured Roman town with streets, buildings, and fortifications. Today it survives as archaeological earthworks near the village of Silchester in Hampshire, making it one of the most substantial visible Roman town sites in Britain ...