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MONUMENT NO. 924368

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Roman Amphitheatre lying outside Roman City of Chichester and visible as an earthwork

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(SU86630466) ROMAN AMPHITHEATRE [R] (site of) [NAT] (1)

Amphitheatre elliptical in shape approx 185 by 150ft consisting of an inner wall with a bank behind. Probably erected between 70 and 90 AD it appears to have been abandoned by end of the 2nd century and robbed for building materials soon afterwards. (2)

Nothing is to be seen of the Roman amphitheatre (3)

Wacher indicates that several amphitheatres in Britain are outside the walls of towns and that there is no reason per se while the amphitheatre at Chichester should have been robbed of stone for the construction of the town defences in the 3rd century. The implication being that occupation/use of the amphitheatre may have lasted longer than the excavator suggests. (4)

The Roman amphitheatre centred SU86640465 is visible as a sub-circular bank 1.7m high by c 115.0 m in overall diameter with an interior depth of 1.8m. The bank is complete except where it has been destroyed by housing development on the SW side. Surveyed at 1:1250 (5)

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(1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 1:2500 1964

(2) The Antiquaries journal : journal of the Society of Antiquaries of London

Plan (G M White) 16, 1936 Page(s)149-64

(3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 PAS 28-MAR-1971

(4) by J S Wacher 1975 The towns of Roman Britain

Page(s)248

(5) Field Investigators Comments

F1 PAS 22-SEP-1972

(6) SU 80 SE 44 (1972)

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The site of the Roman civitas capital at Chichester. The earliest structural evidence in the town is found in the north-west quarter and consists of t...

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