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Since the 1970s excavations by the author and the University of Reading on several sites including the amphitheatre, the defences, the forum basilica, the public baths, a temple and an extensive area of an entire insula, as well as surveys of the suburbs and immediate hinterland, have radically increased our knowledge of the town and its development over time from its origins to its abandonment.  This research has discovered the late Iron Age oppidum and allowed us to characterise the nature of the settlement with its strong Gallic connections and widespread political and trading links across southern Britain, to Gaul and to southern Europe and the Mediterranean.  Following a review of the evidence for the impact of the Roman conquest of A.D. 43\/44, the settlement’s transformation into a planned Roman city is traced, and its association with the Emperor Nero is explored.  With the re-building in masonry of the great forum basilica in the early second century, the city reached the peak of its physical development.  Defence building, first in earthwork, then in stone in the later third century are major landmarks of the third century, but the town can be shown to have continued to flourish, certainly up to the early fifth century and the end of the Roman administration of Britain.  The enigma of the Silchester ogham stone is explored and the story of the town and its transformation to village is taken up to the fourteenth century.  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In addition to the manufacture of standard bricks and roofing materials, the kilns produced the more specialist materials required for building bath-houses. Work on the fabrics and distinctive, roller-stamped flue-tiles shows that products reached a wide variety of destinations between Cirencester, some 100 km to the north-west, and Chichester, on the south coast, though Silchester appears to have been the main market and is the only location where Nero-stamped tile has so far been found. A suggestion is made linking the stamped tile to the visit to Britain by the emperor’s trusted freedman, Polyclitus in the aftermath of the Boudican revolt. An unexpected discovery was the ancillary production from at least three pottery kilns of a wide range of pre-Flavian domestic wares, so far only identified in Silchester and its environs. Alongside the publication of the kilns there are illustrated catalogues of the complete range of brick and tile types produced as well as of the pottery. 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In describing the evidence for the occupation of the 2nd and 3rd centuries  it follows on from  Life and Labour in Late Roman Silchester  (2006), which published the late Roman occupation.  Geochemical  and micromorphological analyses inform the interpretation of the  use of space within buildings and, together with the study of an  abundant material culture and environmental record, provide a  rich characterisation of the houses and their occupants.  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