page_title: Charterhouse (Roman town)
section_title: Amphitheatre
hierarchical_section_title: Charterhouse (Roman town) / Amphitheatre
caption_attribution_description: English: Zoomed and cropped view of the ancient closure and site of Roman town at grid reference ST501561, east of Charterhouse, Somerset, UK
context_page_description: Charterhouse was a town in the Roman province of Britannia. Its site is located just to the west of the village of Charterhouse-on-Mendip in the English county of Somerset.
  Its Latin name may have been Iscalis, but this is far from certain. Based on inscriptions on a pig of Roman lead BRIT. EX. ARG. VEB, meaning "British from the VEB... lead-silver works", the Roman name has been reconstructed as Vebriacum.
  It is associated with the Iron Age hill fort, Charterhouse Camp. The Roman landscape has been designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
context_section_description: An amphitheatre stood west of the settlement. It is the only one in England to exist at a lead mine and is additional evidence of the importance of Mendip lead to the Romans. It measures 32m x 24.4m and the banks for the seating survive 4.5m above the arena. It was surveyed in 1909. It was probably a place of entertainment for the soldiers at the Roman fort which was established here.
caption: View of the ancient enclosure and site of Roman town
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