Reconstruction of a Bronze Age house found at Holywell Coombe near Folkestone. The walls are made of timber and the roof is thatched. © Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd.

Canterbury in the Late Iron Age. Walls of houses were made with wattle and clay daub. The roofs were thatched. Courtesy of Canterbury Museums ©.

This house is at Butser in Hampshire. It was built by experimental archaeologists in the 20th century, in a style used by people in the Iron Age. The roofs were thatched. © Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd.

This is what archaeologists think Canterbury looked like in Roman times. © Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd.

Some houses in Roman Canterbury had floors decorated with mosaics. © Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd.

This Roman floor was found right outside Canterbury Cathedral! Can you see the mosaic? © Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd.

This floor belonged to a huge Roman house found at THE BIG DIG in Canterbury in 2002. © Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd.

This small oven was found in the huge Roman house at THE BIG DIG. © Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd.

At a Roman bath house you could swim, get clean and meet friends. Underfloor heating warmed the water in the baths. © Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd.

Roman underfloor heating system (hypocaust). © Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd.

Flue tile from a Roman heating system. © Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd.

Roman cats and dogs left their paw prints on these tiles! © Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd.