Butt Road Roman Church
Introduction
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Butt Road Roman Church
Image: © Mike Quinn Taken: 2 Apr 2014
The Wiki entry says that "Excavations in the 1980s for a new police station near the Maldon Road roundabout unearthed 371 Roman graves and a long narrow building. The building was built between AD 320 and 340. Oriented east to west, an apse was added to the east end in a later phase. The building was divided by a wooden screen and two rows of posts ran down the eastern half forming aisles. The building has been interpreted on strong circumstantial evidence as an early Christian church. If this is correct, it is probably the earliest known Christian church in Britain."
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Image Location
Latitude
51.886591
Longitude
0.893726