CHEDWORTH ROMAN VILLA
- This is a preview of the essay.
To view the full text you must login!
Report on our Trip to Chedworth Roman Villa
On Tuesday 25th June our class went on an interesting trip to a traditional Roman villa in Chedworth, near Gloucestershire, which was a significantly important villa on Roman times.
We found lots of information including the invasion of the villa, the houses, the way of life for roman people including food and cooking, religion, and even where they went to the toilet! We found out about trade, farming and the industry of the time as well as looking at some amazing mosaics with intricate patterns and geometrical designs.
The Invasion
The land around the villa is quite hilly, but the villa is situated on a flat part of the land, the landscape around it is amazing and enables you to see miles and miles of green countryside. This would have been good for the Romans as they could see an attacking army coming from far off. The villa was built by and occupied by the Romans from 120 AD to about 410 AD, when the Romans left, but there is evidence in coinage found to be dated to about 430 AD when it is estimated the villa fell into disrepair. It is apparent that the people in charge were not trying to take over the British when they came to the land. This would be stupid as the British already had set up small tribes and community and had skills in areas the Romans didn't know of. The best thing to do was to work together. An ex-Roman soldier would have probably been made in charge of this farm, he would have married a local girl, and encouraged other Romans to do the same, creating a Romano- British farm and establishing a relationship with the British people...