Hi Bob, excellent video!!. The builders of that church didn't have to look far for material!! Shame the sundial went missing maybe one day it will be identified and return home. Looks like there is, or was, a good water source in the town, talking of which I recently came across a channel you might find interesting Isaac Moreno Gallo. One of his recent videos explored the water distribution tunnels, from Roman times, underneath Carmona, which I visited earlier this year. Although in Spanish I think you can setup English subtitles. Great series, thanks for taking us around Silchester, I'm amazed I'd never heard of it before. All the best!! PS: Great cameo appearance from the snake from I Claudius👌👌
Hi David, thanks for watching and your kind comments. I'll have a look at that vid, I'd imagine that Spain has some excellent Roman sites. Oddly enough, just finished watching I Claudius a again a few weeks back.
I am not living too far away and enjoy a walk around Silchester from time to time, thanks for your film, now i can just watch this instead 😁. I always wondered why it was abandoned, then stumbled across a video on you tube called Roman Britain the work of giants crumbled - by fall of civilizations, which offers a great explanation of why many of the roman settlements were abandoned. It seems when the romans left those remaining did not want to habit where their past masters had lived.
Pretty certain that no "Tigers" ever graced that arena. Not that none were ever brought into the Roman Empire from their natural home range way to the East since the Romans certainly traded with the Indian Sub-continent, but such limited exotica would have been reserved for places closer to Rome. 😉 Lions, Leopards and Cheetahs though just might have made it before the Empire's appetite for their version of Fox-hunting cleaned out much of the Mediterranean area's big cats. 🙄😊
I don't think they would have had exotic animals as previously mentioned, it was a tad too far away to bring them. Certainly there would have been plays and maybe gladiators but these would had to been sponsored by local dignitaries
Calleva is an incredible place that evokes images in your mind of times past. Superb film with totally professional production makes it a joy to watch
@@anthonymoore6009 it certainly is. Thanks very kind.
Great update as always looking forward to the ones of Chester again soon.
@@markkinnish1196 Thanks Mark, plenty more Chester stuff to come.
Hi Bob, excellent video!!.
The builders of that church didn't have to look far for material!! Shame the sundial went missing maybe one day it will be identified and return home.
Looks like there is, or was, a good water source in the town, talking of which I recently came across a channel you might find interesting Isaac Moreno Gallo. One of his recent videos explored the water distribution tunnels, from Roman times, underneath Carmona, which I visited earlier this year. Although in Spanish I think you can setup English subtitles.
Great series, thanks for taking us around Silchester, I'm amazed I'd never heard of it before.
All the best!!
PS: Great cameo appearance from the snake from I Claudius👌👌
Hi David, thanks for watching and your kind comments. I'll have a look at that vid, I'd imagine that Spain has some excellent Roman sites. Oddly enough, just finished watching I Claudius a again a few weeks back.
I am not living too far away and enjoy a walk around Silchester from time to time, thanks for your film, now i can just watch this instead 😁. I always wondered why it was abandoned, then stumbled across a video on you tube called Roman Britain the work of giants crumbled - by fall of civilizations, which offers a great explanation of why many of the roman settlements were abandoned. It seems when the romans left those remaining did not want to habit where their past masters had lived.
@@beeegeeedeee yup I've seen that. For the most part Roman town were reestablished barring 3 major ones, with Silchester being one of them.
Pretty certain that no "Tigers" ever graced that arena. Not that none were ever brought into the Roman Empire from their natural home range way to the East since the Romans certainly traded with the Indian Sub-continent, but such limited exotica would have been reserved for places closer to Rome. 😉
Lions, Leopards and Cheetahs though just might have made it before the Empire's appetite for their version of Fox-hunting cleaned out much of the Mediterranean area's big cats. 🙄😊
@@theoztreecrasher2647 yes, I think I got a little carried away with the description. Thanks for watching.
I don't think they would have had exotic animals as previously mentioned, it was a tad too far away to bring them. Certainly there would have been plays and maybe gladiators but these would had to been sponsored by local dignitaries
@MrTumbleweed22 Hi, yes you're quite right. I think I got a bit carried away with the description.