Calleva Atrebatum

Calleva Atrebatum
	Site plan of Calleva Atrebatum, drawn before 1911
	Shown within Hampshire
Alternative name	Silchester Roman Town
Location	Silchester, Hampshire, England
Region	Britannia
Coordinates	51°21′26″N 1°4′57″W / 51.35722°N 1.08250°W
Type	Settlement
Part of	Britannia, Britannia Superior, then Britannia Prima
Area	Approximately 40 ha (99 acres)
History
Builder	Atrebates tribe
Founded	Late 1st century BC
Abandoned	5th to 7th century AD
Periods	Iron Age to Roman Empire
Site notes
Archaeologists	University of Reading and others
Management	English Heritage
Website	Silchester Roman City Walls and Amphitheatre
	OS grid reference: SU639624

Calleva Atrebatum ("Calleva of the Atrebates") was an Iron Age oppidum, the capital of the Atrebates tribe. It then became a walled town in the Roman province of Britannia, at a major crossroads of the roads of southern Britain.

The modern village of Silchester in Hampshire, England, is about a mile (1.6 km) to the west of the site. The village's parish church of St Mary the Virgin is just within the ancient walls. Most of the site lies within the modern civil parish of Silchester, although the amphitheatre is in the adjoining civil parish of Mortimer West End. The whole of the site is within the local authority district of Basingstoke and Deane and the county of Hampshire.^[2]

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