Horrible Habits & Costumes Where is the Villa? through the ages! Crofton Road, , , BR6 8AF Every Wednesday in August Crofton Find out all about horrible habits through the ages from the Celts to the Victorians! You can choose to make a mask and get an in Orpington information sheet from your favourite period in (adj. Orpington Rail Station) history to take home. Or you can make a collage picture of a person from your favourite period in history. Adjacent Orpington Rail Station. Open: 2nd April - Sessions at 10.30am. Bus routes 61, 208, 353, R2 & R7. For up to 11 year olds. No booking needed. Car parking available off York Rise. 30th October 2019 Children to be accompanied. Access for people with disabilities. Visit a unique part of ’s Entry £4.00 per child, adult carer free. Information and Bookings heritage on show to the public Kent Archaeological Unit Romans used 18 Highfield Avenue, Green St Green, powdered Orpington, Kent, BR6 6LF mouse brains Tel: 01689 860939 as toothpaste! Email:[email protected] Yuck! www.cka.org.uk/crofton-villa.htm Follow us on Twitter: @CroftonVilla Follow us on Facebook Opening times School workshops Tuesday, Wednesday & Bank Holiday Roman Villa activity workshops Mondays: 10am-1pm & 2pm-3.30pm (last entry 3.00pm) designed to meet with the Sundays: 1st in each month only, National Curriculum and targeted 2pm-4.30pm (last entry 4.00pm). at Key Stage 2 are available from April to October. Admission charges Adults £1.50 Concessions £1.00 Please contact Catherine on: 07805 138465 Family (of 4) £4.00, each additional or email: [email protected] child 50p. www.cka.org.uk/crofton-villa.htm for more information. Staffed by the Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit KARU CROFTON ROMAN VILLA About the Villa What’s on at the Villa? The Crofton Roman Villa House Activity Events was occupied from about AD140 to “a gem in Orpington... Easter Holidays 400 and was the centre of a farming an excellent visit” estate of about 500 acres. Nearby Fun with Pots! would have been farm buildings, Wed 10th and 17th April surrounded by fields, meadows and What’s provided Discover what the Romans used for cooking, woods. eating and drinking. You will be able to handle The house was altered several times during 260 at the Villa? real Roman pottery nearly 2,000 years old. years of occupation and at its largest probably Guided talk on the villa house and its excavation Then you can make your own clay pot to had at least 20 rooms. take home! Graphic displays of the excavations and villa The remains of ten rooms can be seen today, Sessions at 10.30am. with a selection of Roman finds now inside a modern cover building. Two rooms The Touch Table For up to 11 year olds. No booking needed. from the excavation for handling contain the remains of opus signinum (concrete) Children to be accompanied. floors, and three have evidence of tessellated Replica Roman everyday objects including Entry £4.00 per child, adult carer free. (tiled) floors. Details of the under floor central pots, jewellery, lamps and writing tablets heating (hypocaust) Activities for children - Roman games to play, can be mosaic making, dressing up as Romans and digging seen, which for finds in the excavation tray features both Roman soldier ‘rubbings’ channelled and pillared Gift shop selling guide books, postcards, systems. souvenirs and books on local archaeology The site was fully excavated by the SPECIAL activity workshops for Schools Kent Archaeological Rescue Two hour sessions (Tue & Wed) £3.00 per child. Unit, which also carried out Call : 07805 138465 the complete preservation scheme, with funding provided SPECIAL Facility for Societies by Bromley Council. The unit Sunday afternoons 1st of each month. now manages the scheme on Special guided tour of Roman villa for pre- booked societies and groups (min. 20) by the behalf of the Council. For more Tel: 01689 860939 excavation director, Dr. Brian Philp. Normal information see contact details Email:[email protected] charges apply, plus a donation to K.A.R.U. on the back of this leaflet. www.cka.org.uk/crofton-villa.htm