[PDF] Becoming Roman Being Gallic Staying British eBook

Author : Stephen Trow
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 30,62 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN :

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"Excavations at Ditches in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds during the 1980s investigated a large late Iron Age enclosure which proved to contain a remarkably early Roman villa. Discoveries included a well-preserved cellar and a range of finds, including Gallo-Belgic wares, Iron Age coins, coin moulds, Venus figurines and brooches indicating high-status occupation in the late Iron Age and early Roman period. This volume not only includes a report on the excavations of 1984-5, but also additional work, including a new geophysical survey and reassessment of the finds. Alongside re-appraisal of much of the 1980s evidence, this analysis allows the earlier material to be compared with more recent studies of the late Iron Age-Roman transition contributing to debates over processes of 'Romanization', questions of social and political continuity and the nature of villa development in Britain."--Jacket.

Author : Mike McCarthy
Publisher : Windgather Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,13 MB
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1909686115

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This important and significant volume examines, for the first time, the ordinary people of Roman Britain. This overlooked group – the farmers, shopkeepers, labourers and others – fed the country, made the clothes, mined the ores, built the villas and towns and got their hands dirty in the fields and at the potter’s wheel. The book aims to rebalance our view of Roman Britain from its current preoccupation with – archaeologically visible – elite social classes and the institutions of power, towards a recognition that the ordinary person mattered. It looks at how people earned a living, family size and structure, social behaviour, customs and taboos and the impact of the presence of non-locals and foreigners, using archaeology, texts and ethnography. It also explores how the natural forces which underlay the use of agricultural land and regional variation in agricultural practice impacted upon the size, health and nutrition of the population. The Romano-British Peasant leads the way towards a greater understanding of ordinary men and women and their role in the history and landscape of Roman Britain. This title has been nominated for the 2014 Current Archaeology Best Book Award.

Author : Martin Millett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 945 pages
File Size : 26,50 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0199697736

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This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online. Roman Britain is a critical area of research within the provinces of the Roman empire. Within the last 15-20 years, the study of Roman Britain has been transformed through an enormous amount of new and interesting work which is not reflected in the main stream literature.

Author : Greg Woolf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 29,99 MB
Release : 2000-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521789820

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Studies the 'Romanization' of Rome's Gallic provinces in the late Republic and early empire.

Author : Martin Henig
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 180327381X

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This volume brings together a range of papers on buildings that have been categorised as ‘villas’, mainly in Roman Britain, from the Isle of Wight to Shropshire. It comprises the first such survey for almost half a century.

Author : Timothy Darvill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 46,79 MB
Release : 2010-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1136973044

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Prehistoric Britain, now in its second edition, examines the development of human societies in Britain from earliest times to the Roman conquest of AD 43, as revealed by archaeological evidence. Special attention is given to six themes which are traced through prehistory: subsistence, technology, ritual, trade, society, and population.

Author : Tom Moore
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 31,64 MB
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 178969535X

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This book explores the changing nature of power and identity from the Iron Age to the Roman period in Britain. It provides fresh insights into the origins and nature of one of the lesser-known, but perhaps most significant, Late Iron Age 'oppida' in Britain: Bagendon in Gloucestershire.

Author : Andy M. Jones
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 43,34 MB
Release : 2019-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789691532

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This volume presents the results of archaeological investigations on the Newquay Strategic Road and goes on to discuss the complexity of the archaeology, review the evidence for ‘special’ deposits and explore evidence for the deliberate closure of buildings especially in later prehistoric and Roman period Cornwall.

Author : Steven Willis
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 2021-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1789255902

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The Journal of Roman Pottery Studies continues to present a range of important new research in the field by both established and early career scholars. Volume XVIII has a strong theme on pottery production with papers on kiln sites, mortaria and late Roman pottery production in East Anglia and at a small town in Belgium. A major new third century assemblage from civitas Cananefatium in South Holland is presented. The second part of an important gazetteer of less common samian ware fabrics and types in northern and western Britain covers fabrics from Central and East Gaul

Author : Stephen Rippon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,96 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 0199645825

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It has long been recognized that the landscape of Britain is one of the 'richest historical records we possess', but just how old is it? The Fields of Britannia is the first book to explore how far the countryside of Roman Britain has survived in use through to the present day, shaping the character of our modern countryside. Commencing with a discussion of the differing views of what happened to the landscape at the end of Roman Britain, the volume then brings together the results from hundreds of archaeological excavations and palaeoenvironmental investigations in order to map patterns of land-use across Roman and early medieval Britain. In compiling such extensive data, the volume is able to reconstruct regional variations in Romano-British and early medieval land-use using pollen, animal bones, and charred cereal grains to demonstrate that agricultural regimes varied considerably and were heavily influenced by underlying geology. We are shown that, in the fifth and sixth centuries, there was a shift away from intensive farming but very few areas of the landscape were abandoned completely. What is revealed is a surprising degree of continuity: the Roman Empire may have collapsed, but British farmers carried on regardless, and the result is that now, across large parts of Britain, many of these Roman field systems are still in use.