Culture and Society at Lullingstone Roman Villa MacKenzie Caroline K.
Culture and Society at Lullingstone Roman Villa MacKenzie Caroline K. Culture and Society at Lullingstone Roman Villa paints a picture of what life might have been like for the inhabitants of the…
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Culture and Society at Lullingstone Roman Villa MacKenzie Caroline K.
Culture and Society at Lullingstone Roman Villa paints a picture of what life might have been like for the inhabitants of the villa in the late third and fourth centuries AD. Seventy years on from the commencement of the excavation of the site, this study draws on the original reports but also embraces innovative approaches to examining the archaeological evidence and sheds new light on our understanding of the villa's use. The villa today, in the Darent Valley, Kent, has an unusual amount of well-preserved evidence for its interior decoration and architecture.
An exploration of the landscape setting asks whether property location was as important a factor in the time of Roman Britain as For the first time, the site of Lullingstone Roman Villa is surveyed holistically, developing a plausible argument that the inhabitants used domestic space to assert their status and cultural identity.