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For almost three hundred years, excavations have been carried out
in Roman Bath. At first these were rare and sporadic and
archaeological finds were made by chance. Even fewer were reported.
But from the 1860s, deliberate investigations were made and
increasingly professional methods employed. The Roman Baths were
laid open to view, but little was published. From the 1950s,
interest accelerated, professionals and amateurs collaborated, and
there was never a decade in which some new discovery was not made.
The first popular but authoritative presentation of this work was
made in 1971 and updated several times. However, from the 1990s to
the present there has been some sort of archaeological
investigation almost every year. This has thrown much new and
unexpected light on the town of Aquae Sulis and its citizens. In
this book, Peter Davenport, having been involved in most of the
archaeological work in Bath since 1980, attempts to tell the story
of Roman Bath: the latest interim report on the 'Three Hundred Year
Dig'.
A round-up of excavations undertaken by Bath Archaeological Trust
between 1984 and 1989. These consist mainly of the excavation of
the Roman and medieval town centre of Bath Street and Beau Street
and at the Cross Bath, and of a Roman site at Julian Road.
The Hindenberg disaster. Andy Warhol's Campbell s Soup Can. Marilyn
Monroe standing over the subway grating. The first step onto the
Moon. These powerful images have left an indelible impression in
our collective mind's eye. This mesmerizing little volume
celebrates these and hundreds of other artistic and cultural
touchstones without actually reproducing them. Each page is devoted
to a single image, with a caption providing its title or
description and the date that it was created. Just that information
evokes the image vividly. The page itself is blank. Dorothea
Lange's Migrant Mother. The album cover of Sgt. Pepper. A man
facing a row of tanks in Tiananmen Square. Arranged in
chronological order from 1900 to the present, these images are a
testament to the enduring impact of photography, art, and the image
as well as to the graphic precision of our shared memory bank. It's
also a great pop quiz on cultural literacy.
Prior to the building of the new Bath Spa, in the centre of the
World Heritage City of Bath, excavations were carried out to record
the archaeological remains threatened by its construction. Evidence
was recovered of the presence and perhaps the rituals of mesolithic
hunter-gatherers, hitherto unknown official Roman buildings of the
first and second centuries and some indication of activity in the
late Saxon and medieval periods. An important part of the dig was a
programme of geoarchaeological research to study the microstructure
of the soils excavated with a view to understanding the activities
that led to their formation.
Peter Davenport, as Director of Excavations at the Bath
Archaeological Trust, has been involved in some of the most
important excavations in the city and, therefore, is in a better
position than most to inform us about those "centuries of
historical amnesia" that followed the departure of the Romans. The
book follows the reconstruction of the city around its convent and
monastery and, later, its cathedral. The book is illustrated
throughout with photographs and drawings of sites, buildings,
artworks, artifacts, and maps.
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