Author : Stephen Trow,Simon James,Thomas Hugh Moore
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015079280866
Becoming Roman, Being Gallic, Staying British by Stephen Trow,Simon James,Thomas Hugh Moore Pdf
"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.