Be a Roman Soldier! Where is the Villa? Every Wednesday in August Crofton Road, , , BR6 8AF Find out about the life of a Roman Legionary What’s On? (boys and girls) and join in marching and drill Events inside practice. Will you win a military diploma? Make a collage Roman soldier picture and colour in Visit a unique part of ’s some soldier drawings to take home. heritage on show to the public

The remains of For booking a school Activity Workshop Please contact Cathy on: Crofton 07805 138465 or email Adjacent Orpington Rail Station. [email protected] Bus routes 61, 208, 353, R2 & R7. Car parking available off York Rise. Access for people with disabilities. in Orpington Information and Bookings (adj. Orpington Rail Station) Fun and games at the Roman Villa Kent Archaeological Unit Open Every Friday in August 18 Highfield Avenue, Green St Green, 2nd April - Discover what games Roman children played Orpington, Kent, BR6 6LF 31st October 2000 years ago. Join in the fun and play some Tel: 01689 860939 2014 Roman games. Make your very own ‘Roman’ Email:[email protected] board game to take home! www.the-cka.fsnet.co.uk Follow us on Twitter: @CroftonVilla Sessions at 10.30am and 2.00pm. For 5-11 year olds. No booking needed. Children to be accompanied. Bromley Museum To find out more about local history Entry £4.00 per child, accompanying and archaeology, why not combine adults free. your visit to the Roman Villa with Roman Tombs Open 2014 a trip to Bromley Museum in Sunday 28th September: 11am - 4.00pm Orpington? Roman Tombs Admission is FREE. Brambletye, Westerham Road, Keston Bromley Museum FREE ENTRY with guided tours and displays The Priory, Church Hill, Orpington, (Pedestrian access only, parking at Keston Ponds) BR6 0HH. Tel: 01689 873826 www.the-cka.fsnet.co.uk KARU CROFTON ROMAN VILLA What’s on at the Villa? About the Villa Activity Events ...Roman history for the The Crofton Roman Villa House Roman Food was occupied from about AD140 to local community Wed 9th , 16th & Friday 11th April 400 and was the centre of a farming What did the Romans eat? And what did estate of about 500 acres. Nearby they not eat? Find out at the villa and find would have been farm buildings, out what it was like at a Roman feast. Make surrounded by fields, meadows and What’s provided a delicious Roman honey date sweet and woods. create a Roman feast menu to take home! The house was altered several times during at the Villa? Sessions at 10.30am and 2.00pm. 260 years of occupation and at its largest Guided talk / recorded commentary on the villa For 5-11 year olds. No booking needed. probably had at least 20 rooms. by an archaeologist Children to be accompanied. Entry £4.00 per child, accompanying adults The remains of ten rooms can be seen today, Graphic displays of the excavations and villa free. now inside a modern cover building. Two rooms The Touch Table with a selection of Roman contain the remains of opus signinum (concrete) finds from the excavation for handling Festival of British Archaeology floors, and three have evidence of tessellated Replica Roman everyday objects including Sunday 20th July (tiled) floors. Details of the under floor central pots, jewellery, lamps and writing tablets Find out about the lost Roman town of heating Noviomagus in with graphics (hypocaust) Activities for children - Roman games to play, and finds, for the first time ever, including the can be mosaic making, dressing up as Romans and digging unique rim of a Roman wheel. seen, which for finds in the excavation tray Open:10am - 4.30pm. features both Roman soldier ‘rubbings’ No booking needed. channelled Entry £1.50/concessions £1.00. and pillared Gift shop selling guide books, postcards, systems. souvenirs and books on local archaeology Opening times The site was fully excavated SPECIAL activity workshops for Schools. Wednesday, Friday & Bank holiday Monday: by the Kent Archaeological Two hour sessions. 10am-1pm & 2pm-5pm (last entry 4.30pm). Rescue Unit, which also carried (Weds, Thurs, Fri) £3.00 per child Sundays: 1st in each month only, with special out the complete preservation SPECIAL Facility for Societies guided talk by an archaeologist 2pm-5pm scheme, with funding provided Sunday afternoons 1st of each month. (last entry 4.30pm). by Bromley Council. The Unit Special guided tour of Roman villa for pre- Admission charges now manages the scheme on booked societies and groups (min. 20) by the Adults £1.50 Concessions £1.00 behalf of the Council. For more excavation director, Brian Philp. Normal charges Family (of 4) £4.00, each additional child 50p information see contact details apply, plus a donation to K.A.R.U. on the back of this leaflet. Staffed by the Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit