https://roman-gardens.github.io/id/2b07c56730/Recent content in Chester on Gardens of the Roman EmpireHugoen-usSat, 13 Jun 2026 14:59:24 -0400https://roman-gardens.github.io/id/fd2163e5d2/Wed, 21 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://roman-gardens.github.io/id/fd2163e5d2/<h2 id="dates">Dates</h2> <p>unspecified</p> <h2 id="location">Location</h2> <p><a href="https://roman-gardens.github.io/id/2b07c56730/">Chester</a></p> <h2 id="garden">Garden</h2> <p>Tomb Painting in Chester</p> <h2 id="garden-description">Garden Description</h2> <p>Toynbee's suggestion that a military tombstone from Chester depicting a row of three gabled buildings with stylized trees or shrubs planted in front of the two at the sides perhaps represents a tomb garden with tomb and flanking funerary buildings, though plausible, cannot in itself be taken to show that tomb gardens existed in Roman Britain; it would, however, suggest that the concept of planting at tombs was regarded as conventionally Roman and appropriate.</p> <!-- ## Maps --> <!-- ## Plans --> <!-- ## Images --> <h2 id="bibliography">Bibliography</h2> <ul> <li>R. P. Wright and I. A. Richmond, <em>Catalogue of the Inscribed and Sculptured Stones in the Grosvenor Museum, Chester</em> (1955) 40 no. 92, pl. 26. <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/title/500390411" target="_blank">(world cat)</a></li> <li>J. M. C. Toynbee, <em>Death and Burial in the Roman World</em> (London 1971) 100. <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/title/807342603" target="_blank">(world cat)</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="keywords">Keywords</h2> <ul> <li> <a href="https://roman-gardens.github.io/search/?q=funerary buildings">funerary buildings</a> (<a class="id" target="_blank" href="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300005866" title="Art and Architecture Thesaurus (Getty)">AAT:300005866</a>) </li> <li> <a href="https://roman-gardens.github.io/search/?q=tombs">tombs</a> (<a class="id" target="_blank" href="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300005926" title="Art and Architecture Thesaurus (Getty)">AAT:300005926</a>) </li> </ul> <h2 id="places">Places</h2> <ul> <li> <a href="https://roman-gardens.github.io/search/?q=Cilurnum" title='search for "Cilurnum" within GRE'>Cilurnum</a> (<a class="id" target="_blank" href="https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89144" title="Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places">Pleiades:89144</a>) </li> <li> <a href="https://roman-gardens.github.io/search/?q=Chesters%20%28inhabited%20place%29" title='search for "Chesters (inhabited place)" within GRE'>Chesters (inhabited place)</a> (<a class="id" target="_blank" href="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7026064" title="Thesaurus of Geographic Names (Getty)">TGN:7026064</a>) </li> </ul>