St Mary's


Silchester, Hampshire

Silchester is a village and civil parish about 5 miles north of Basingstoke in Hampshire. It is adjacent to the county boundary with Berkshire and about 9 miles south-west of Reading.

Silchester is most notable for the archaeological site and Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum, an Iron Age settlement first occupied by the Romans in about AD 45 and includes what is considered the best-preserved Roman wall in Great Britain.

St Mary's, Silchester, lies entirely within the ancient walls of the site, which will be seen in the pictures. The graveyard contains a pair of carved 13th or 14th century coffin lids, presumably to members of the Bluet family.

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The pair of ancient coffin lids mentioned in the introduction



The ancient Roman walls can be seen at the left

The ancient Roman walls can be seen at the left and in the distance on the right










It was very dark here. The exposure time of this and the next picture was 1/15 second, handheld


Even darker, this was 1/8 second




Our new friends, the llama sisters





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