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The Next Event at Roman Alcester will be on:
Saturday 17th May 2008
Alcester Big Dig
10am - 4pm
Try your hand at digging in our specially prepared archaeological trench.
£2.00
and
Finds Identification Day
10am - 12pm
Come and have your local finds identified by a member of Warwickshire Museum staff.
Free.
Browse the Alcester collections. The Online Catalogue is now available.
How to find Roman Alcester
Roman Alcester is at Globe House, Priory Road, Alcester.
Opening times
Thursday 10.00am - 4.00pm
Friday 10.00am - 4.00pm
Saturday 10.00am - 4.00pm
Sunday 2.00pm - 4.00pm
Admission to Roman Alcester
is free!
PARKING: two spaces reserved for disabled drivers, limited additional parking, ample free parking nearby.
DISABLED ACCESS and induction loop system provided.
GROUPS, research students, private bookings, schools and parties welcome at other times by prior arrangement.
HERITAGE SHOP in foyer.
Roman Alcester is a partnership between Stratford on Avon District Council, Alcester Heritage Trust and Warwickshire County Council, and is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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Roman Alcester is an exciting new exhibition interpreting and displaying objects from Alcester's Roman past.
Alcester is one of the most investigated Roman small towns in the country, with over 100 archaeological digs in the last 80 years.
Recent excavations have revealed much about the area of the Roman town which would have been outside the boundary wall built in the 3rd century AD.
A glass 'millefiori' brooch found at
the Coulter's Garage site in 1979.
The millefiori decoration is made
up of tiny rods of coloured
glass cut into slices and
fixed into a bronze setting.
Most of the material that has been found is being stored and cared for at Warwickshire Museum.
The new Roman Alcester exhibition means that many important objects can be seen back in the town where they were first discovered.
Roman Alcester offers National Curriculum linked hands-on Schools Project.
Contact Roman Alcester staff for details on 01789 762216. | | Come to Roman Alcester and find out what life was like there in Roman times between the 1st and 4th centuries AD.
This brooch in the shape of a fish
has red enamel decoration.
It was found during excavations
in Gas House Lane in
1988 and 1989.
Look into a reconstruction of an archaeological dig.
Handle and sort real Roman finds.
See the amazing array of Roman objects found in Alcester.
Meet the characters in Roman Alcester's market place and listen to their stories.
Go back in time - try on a Roman tunic!
Discover more about Alcester before and after the Roman period.
An enamelled seal box from
excavations at Birch Abbey in the 1960s.
In Roman Britain, official letters were
written on wax tablets. They were
fastened with a wax seal
which was protected on its travels
in a small bronze box.
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