Silchester

Silchester, that is, in the last thirty years of the first century.

Ancient Town-Planning 1889

[61] See Mr. Freeman's article on "Silchester" in _English Towns and

Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Edward Augustus Freeman 1857

It was the discovery in Silchester of a battered Roman eagle that gave Rosemary Sutcliff the idea for The Eagle of the Ninth, and in an "Author's Note" at the end of his superb new novel Kevin Crossley-Holland describes a similar epiphany.

Bracelet of Bones by Kevin Crossley-Holland – review 2011

If the inscription on the silver Venus ring found at nearby Silchester, which reads “Senecianus, may you live in God”, refers to the same Senecianus, this might even be the ring in question.

Archive 2008-07-01 Carla 2008

If the inscription on the silver Venus ring found at nearby Silchester, which reads “Senecianus, may you live in God”, refers to the same Senecianus, this might even be the ring in question.

Lord of Silver, by Alan Fisk. Book review Carla 2008

Other sites will show how work has progressed since last year: the Silchester Roman Town Excavation, near Reading, will be open every day except July 20, and has a special open day for children on July 21.

Archive 2007-07-01 2007

There will be a "Flying Museum" on site, drawn from the Museum of Reading's collections from the Victorian dig at Silchester.

Archive 2007-07-01 2007

Other sites will show how work has progressed since last year: the Silchester Roman Town Excavation, near Reading, will be open every day except July 20, and has a special open day for children on July 21.

National Archaeology Week in the United Kingdom 2007

There will be a "Flying Museum" on site, drawn from the Museum of Reading's collections from the Victorian dig at Silchester.

National Archaeology Week in the United Kingdom 2007

She is, moreover, the daughter of the late Bishop of Silchester (if report may be believed), whose active benevolence, as your readers know, left his family in comparatively straitened circumstances at his death.

The Hand of Ethelberta 2006