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The Chichester Amphitheatre: Preliminary Excavations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

G. M. White
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The discovery of the Roman amphitheatre at Chichester was made by a local resident, Mr. Raymond Carlyon-Britton, to whom the writer is indebted for permission to use that knowledge.

Believing that an amphitheatre would be a normal adjunct of a Roman town of the size and importance of Chichester, Mr. Carlyon-Britton began an examination of the outskirts of the city in 1934, with the result that, early in 1935, the writer was shown the site which has since proved to be that of the amphitheatre. It lies outside the city on the SE. (fig. 1), just over 200 yards from the walls and divided from them by the now covered course of the Lavant stream, and about 250 yards from the East Gate, where Stane Street branches off north-eastwards. The line of approach from the East Gate to the amphitheatre has not been determined; a road may have led to it directly from the East Gate, or branched off, beyond the Lavant stream, from the road which no doubt ran eastwards along the coast.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , April 1936 , pp. 149 - 159
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1936

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page 156 note 1 Cf. a similar form from , Richborough (Third Report of the Excavations of the Roman Fort at Richborough, Kent, fig. 310)Google Scholar and from Holme, Runcton (Proc. Prehist. Soc. E. Anglia, 1933, pp. 238–40, fig. 7).Google Scholar

page 156 note 2 Cf. the setting-out of amphitheatre, Caerleon (Archaeologia, lxxviii, 215–18).Google Scholar

page 157 note 1 The writer here acknowledges the help of Mr. B. H. St. J. O'Neil, F.S.A.