Enter off Butchery Lane in Canterbury to the small entrance way of the ROMAN MUSEUM and descend a 100 years with each step. 12' below a contemporary shopping area on street level and you've arrived in the archaeological digs of an ancient Roman home, a street, a life, filled with pottery shards, leather and textile fragments, even a glass cremation urn filled with the vertebra of a young woman. All this evidence of human habitation in a vibrant city dating to the 1st c. AD; complete with public baths, amphitheater, temples, private homes and walkways connecting them all. Many a people wandered here. Durovernum Cantiacorum was its name used by the Roman conquerors; duro meaning "stronghold," and uerno = "alder tree"
illustration of Roman occupation at Durovernum Cantiacorum in the 2nd c. AD
For more info > http://www.canterbury.co.uk/Canterbury-Canterbury-Roman-Museum/details/?dms=3&venue=3030500
