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below One of Little London’s brick kilns.
Little London: Nero, Silchester, and building infrastructure in the new province
Distinctive tiles stamped with the name and titles of the Roman emperor Nero have been found at only two sites from Roman Britain, both in Hampshire. Michael Fulford explores what this might mean.
One of the curiosities associated with Silchester (a Roman town in Hampshire, known to its inhabitants as Calleva Atrebatum after the Iron Age people who previously inhabited the site; see CA 343 and 358) are finds of tiles stamped with the name and titles of Emperor Nero. The first was discovered in 1903-1904, in a pit adjacent to bathhouse remains that the Society of Antiquaries was investigating, and it would be another two decades before a second emerged – a mile and a half to the south, at Little London, in 1926. There, local antiquarian Colonel Karslake was exploring what he thought was a Roman brickyard, though he did not identify any kilns. Further examples of Nero tiles appeared a
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