Roman Games and Toys Where is the Villa? Every Wednesday in August Crofton Road, , , BR6 8AF Find out about Roman toys and the games Crofton Roman children played. Make your own Roman game to take home. Sessions at 10.30am. in Orpington For up to 11 year olds. No booking needed. (adj. Orpington Rail Station) Children to be accompanied. Entry £4.00 per child, adult carer free. Open: 1st April - Adjacent Orpington Rail Station. Bus routes 61, 208, 353, R2 & R7. 26th October 2018 To book a School Car parking available off York Rise. Activity Workshop Access for people with disabilities. Visit a unique part of ’s Please contact Cathy on: heritage on show to the public 07805 138465 or email Information and Bookings [email protected] Kent Archaeological Unit (Wed & Fri only) 18 Highfield Avenue, Green St Green, Orpington, Kent, BR6 6LF Tel: 01689 860939 Email:[email protected] www.cka.org.uk/crofton-villa.htm Follow us on Twitter: @CroftonVilla Rare opportunity to visit: Follow us on Facebook Roman Tombs Sunday 23rd September. 11am - 4pm Opening times Brambletye, Westerham Road, Keston Wednesdays, Fridays & Bank Holiday Mondays: 10am-1pm & 2pm-3.30pm Guided site talks, displays and bookstalls. (last entry 3.00pm) Free entry, no Sundays: 1st in each month only, booking needed. 2pm-4.30pm (last entry 4.00pm). Pedestrian access Admission charges only. Parking at Adults £1.50 Concessions £1.00 Keston Ponds/ Family (of 4) £4.00, each additional Heathfield Road. child 50p. www.cka.org.uk/crofton-villa.htm 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... 400 and was the centre of a farming an excellent visit” Roman Soldiers estate of about 500 acres. Nearby Wed 4th & 11th April would have been farm buildings, Discover what life was like in surrounded by fields, meadows and What’s provided the Roman army. Dress up as woods. a Roman soldier and practise drill and marching to gain your The house was altered several times during 260 at the Villa? military diploma. Make a collage years of occupation and at its largest probably Guided talk on the villa house and its excavation picture of a Roman soldier to had at least 20 rooms. Graphic displays of the excavations and villa take home. The remains of ten rooms can be seen today, now inside a modern cover building. Two rooms The Touch Table with a selection of Roman finds Sessions at 10.30am. contain the remains of opus signinum (concrete) from the excavation for handling For up to 11 year olds. floors, and three have evidence of tessellated Replica Roman everyday objects including No booking needed. (tiled) floors. Details of the under floor central pots, jewellery, lamps and writing tablets Children to be accompanied. heating Entry £4.00 per child, adult carer free. (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 July Festival of Archaeology features both Roman soldier ‘rubbings’ Roman Villa Family Fun! channelled Sunday 15th July and pillared Gift shop selling guide books, postcards, Discover the secrets of the systems. souvenirs and books on local archaeology Villa house with a guided The site was fully excavated by the SPECIAL activity workshops for Schools talk and Roman artefacts. Kent Archaeological Rescue Two hour sessions (Wed & Fri) £3.00 per child. Complete a family villa quiz Unit, which also carried out Call : 07805 138465 - with a badge & certificate for children & a the complete preservation free Kent Excavations book for the adults! scheme, with funding provided SPECIAL Facility for Societies Sunday afternoons 1st of each month. by Bromley Council. The unit Special tours at 10.30am and 2.30pm. now manages the scheme on Special guided tour of Roman villa for pre- booked societies and groups (min. 20) by the Open 10am - 4.30pm. Last entry 4pm. behalf of the Council. For more Normal admission charges apply. information see contact details excavation director, Dr. Brian Philp. Normal charges apply, plus a donation to K.A.R.U. Children must be accompanied. on the back of this leaflet. No booking needed.