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Bignor Roman Villa

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Bignor Roman Villa is a large Roman courtyard villa which has been excavated and put on public display on the Bignor estate in the English county of West Sussex. [1]

25 relations: Antiquarian, Bignor, Chalk, Chichester, Circa, England, Fishbourne Roman Palace, Greensand, Hypocaust, John Hawkins (geologist), Margaret Rule, Mosaic, Noviomagus Reginorum, Portico, Roman villa, Romano-British culture, S. E. Winbolt, Samuel Lysons, Sheppard Frere, Society of Antiquaries of London, South Downs, Stane Street (Chichester), Tourist attraction, United Kingdom, West Sussex.

Antiquarian

An antiquarian or antiquary (from the Latin: antiquarius, meaning pertaining to ancient times) is an aficionado or student of antiquities or things of the past.

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Bignor

Bignor is a village and civil parish in the Chichester district of the English county of West Sussex, about six miles (10 km) north of Arundel.

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Chalk

Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock, a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite.

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Chichester

Chichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, in South-East England.

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Circa

Circa, usually abbreviated c., ca. or ca (also circ. or cca.), means "approximately" in several European languages (and as a loanword in English), usually in reference to a date.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Fishbourne Roman Palace

Fishbourne Roman Palace is in the village of Fishbourne, Chichester in West Sussex.

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Greensand

Greensand or green sand is a sand or sandstone which has a greenish color.

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Hypocaust

A hypocaust (Latin hypocaustum) is a system of central heating in a building that produces and circulates hot air below the floor of a room, and may also warm the walls with a series of pipes through which the hot air passes.

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John Hawkins (geologist)

John Hawkins (6 May 1761H. S. Torrens, 'Hawkins, John (1761–1841)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press) 2004 – 4 July 1841) was an English geologist, traveller and writer.

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Margaret Rule

Margaret Helen Rule, (27 September 1928 – 9 April 2015) was a British archaeologist.

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Mosaic

A mosaic is a piece of art or image made from the assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials.

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Noviomagus Reginorum

Noviomagus Reginorum was the Roman town which is today called Chichester, situated in the modern English county of West Sussex.

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Portico

A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls.

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Roman villa

A Roman villa was a country house built for the upper class in the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, similar in form to the hacienda estates in the colonies of the Spanish Empire.

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Romano-British culture

Romano-British culture is the culture that arose in Britain under the Roman Empire following the Roman conquest in AD 43 and the creation of the province of Britannia.

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S. E. Winbolt

Samuel Edward Winbolt (1868-1944) was a British classics and history teacher, author and amateur archaeologist.

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Samuel Lysons

Samuel Lysons FRS (1763 – June 1819) was an English antiquarian and engraver who, together with his elder brother Daniel Lysons (1762–1834), published several works on antiquarian topics.

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Sheppard Frere

Sheppard Sunderland Frere, CBE, FSA, FBA (23 August 1916 – 26 February 2015) was a British historian and archaeologist who studied the Roman Empire.

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Society of Antiquaries of London

The Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL) is a learned society "charged by its Royal Charter of 1751 with 'the encouragement, advancement and furtherance of the study and knowledge of the antiquities and history of this and other countries'." It is based at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London (a building owned by the UK government), and is a registered charity.

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South Downs

The South Downs are a range of chalk hills that extends for about across the south-eastern coastal counties of England from the Itchen Valley of Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head, near Eastbourne, East Sussex, in the east.

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Stane Street (Chichester)

Stane Street is the modern name given to an important Roman road in England that linked London to the Roman town of Noviomagus Reginorum, or Regnentium, later renamed Chichester by the Saxons.

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Tourist attraction

A tourist attraction is a place of interest where tourists visit, typically for its inherent or exhibited natural or cultural value, historical significance, natural or built beauty, offering leisure and amusement.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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West Sussex

West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering East Sussex (with Brighton and Hove) to the east, Hampshire to the west and Surrey to the north, and to the south the English Channel.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bignor_Roman_Villa

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