Development On Roman London S Western Hill

Author : Sadie Watson,Kieron Heard
Publisher : Mola (Museum of London Archaeology)
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UGA:32108046179340

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Development on Roman London's Western Hill by Sadie Watson,Kieron Heard Pdf

Redevelopment of Paternoster Square in 2000-2001 provided the opportunity to reassess 1960s work at the site and review Roman activity on the western hill, south of the main east-west road from London to Silchester. Natural stream channels recorded at Paternoster and nearby sites drained south-westwards towards the Fleet river, rather than to the Thames as had been previously thought. The earliest Roman activity was associated with the c.AD 50 establishment of the main road, contemporary quarries and boundary ditches. One ditch contained two young male inhumation burials and a dog skeleton. Rudimentary buildings south of the road may have been briefly used during initial construction activity. Clay and timber strip buildings along the south side of the main road, and secondary roads leading southwards, date to the pre-Boudican period. The roads and roadside properties were re-established after the Boudican fire. Late 1st-century buildings included residential, commercial and small-scale industrial activities. Two 2nd-century kilns may be associated with brass making and include a crucible. Glassworking debris and furnace material was probably redeposited from nearby. Post-Hadrianic occupation included substantial buildings with tessellated floors and painted plaster walls set back from the roads. Activity declined in the later Roman period and five 4th-century burials cut into a disused secondary road. The southwest part of the site was largely external, with evidence for animal husbandry and bread wheat preparation, rare within Roman contexts. The large assembly of pre-Boudican pottery and other finds from the site includes Lyon ware and types of hinged brooches often associated with the military. A copper-alloy name-tag identified an auxiliary soldier, probably from the lower Rhineland or Cologne, and the early animal bone assemblage was made up of high status kitchen waste of the sort produced by army supply trains, but the overall evidence could indicate a civil context which includes some military involvement.

Author : Richard Hingley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350047310

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Londinium: A Biography by Richard Hingley Pdf

*** Winner of the PROSE Award (2019) for Classics *** This major new work on Roman London brings together the many new discoveries of the last generation and provides a detailed overview of the city from before its foundation in the first century to the fifth century AD. Richard Hingley explores the archaeological and historical evidence for London under the Romans, assessing the city in the context of its province and the wider empire. He explores the multiple functions of Londinium over time, considering economy, industry, trade, status and urban infrastructure, but also looking at how power, status, gender and identity are reflected through the materiality of the terrain and waterscape of the evolving city. A particular focus of the book is the ritual and religious context in which these activities occurred. Hingley looks at how places within the developing urban landscape were inherited and considers how the history and meanings of Londinium built upon earlier associations from its recent and ancient past. As well as drawing together a much-needed synthesis of recent scholarship and material evidence, Hingley offers new perspectives that will inspire future debate and research for years to come. This volume not only provides an accessible introduction for undergraduate students and anyone interested in the ancient city of London, but also an essential account for more advanced students and scholars.

Author : Lacey M. Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107047570

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The Origin of Roman London by Lacey M. Wallace Pdf

Drawing on both published and archived archaeological evidence, this copiously illustrated book revolutionises our understanding of early Roman London.

Author : Dominic Perring
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191093425

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London in the Roman World by Dominic Perring Pdf

incAn original, authoritative survey of the archaeology and history of Roman London. London in the Roman World draws on the results of latest archaeological discoveries to describe London's Roman origins. It presents a wealth of new information from one of the world's richest and most intensively studied archaeological sites, and a host of original ideas concerning its economic and political history. This original study follows a narrative approach, setting archaeological data firmly within its historical context. London was perhaps converted from a fort built at the time of the Roman conquest, where the emperor Claudius arrived to celebrate his victory in AD 43, to become the commanding city from which Rome supported its military occupation of Britain. London grew to support Rome's campaigning forces, and the book makes a close study of the political and economic consequences of London's role as a supply base. Rapid growth generated a new urban landscape, and this study provides a comprehensive guide to the industry and architecture of the city. The story, traced from new archaeological research, shows how the city was twice destroyed in war, and suffered more lastingly from plagues of the second and third centuries. These events had a critical bearing on the reforms of late antiquity, from which London emerged as a defended administrative enclave only to be deserted when Rome failed to maintain political control. This ground-breaking study brings new information and arguments to our study of the way in which Rome ruled, and how the empire failed.

Author : David Bird
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785703225

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Agriculture and Industry in South-Eastern Roman Britain by David Bird Pdf

The ancient counties surrounding the Weald in the SE corner of England have a strongly marked character of their own that has survived remarkably well in the face of ever-increasing population pressure. The area is, however, comparatively neglected in discussion of Roman Britain, where it is often subsumed into a generalised treatment of the ‘civilian’ part of Britannia that is based largely on other parts of the country. This book aims to redress the balance. The focus is particularly on Kent, Surrey and Sussex account is taken of information from neighbouring counties, particularly when the difficult subsoils affect the availability of evidence. An overview of the environment and a consideration of themes relevant to the South-East as a whole accompany 14 papers covering the topics of rural settlement in each county, crops, querns and millstones, animal exploitation, salt production, leatherworking, the working of bone and similar materials, the production of iron and iron objects, non-ferrous metalworking, pottery production and the supply of tile to Roman London. Agriculture and industry provides an up-to-date assessment of our knowledge of the southern hinterland of Roman London and an area that was particularly open to influences from the Continent.

Author : Alex Mullen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198887294

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Social Factors in the Latinization of the Roman West by Alex Mullen Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Latinization is a strangely overlooked topic. Historians have noted it has been 'taken for granted' and viewed as an unremarkable by-product of 'Romanization', despite its central importance for understanding the Roman provincial world, its life, and languages. This volume aims to fill the gap in our scholarship. Expert contributors have been selected to create a multi-disciplinary volume with a thematic approach to the vast subject, tackling administration, army, economy, law, mobility, religion (local and imperial religions and Christianity), social status, and urbanism. They situate the phenomena of Latinization, literacy, and bi- and multilingualism within local and broader social developments and draw together materials and arguments that have not before been coordinated in a single volume. The result is a comprehensive guide to the topic, which offers original and more experimental work. The sociolinguistic, historical, and archaeological contributions reinforce, expand, and sometimes challenge our vision of Latinization and lay the foundations for future explorations. This volume will be accompanied by two further volumes from the European Research Council-funded LatinNow project: Latinization, Local Languages, and Literacies in the Roman West, and Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces.

Author : Jason Lundock
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784911812

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A Study of the Deposition and Distribution of Copper Alloy Vessels in Roman Britain by Jason Lundock Pdf

This book collects together data concerning copper alloy vessels from Roman Britain and relates this evidence to prevailing theories of consumption, identity and culture change in Britain during this time.

Author : Adam Parker,Stuart McKie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785708824

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Material Approaches to Roman Magic by Adam Parker,Stuart McKie Pdf

This second volume in the new TRAC Themes in Roman Archaeology series seeks to push the research agendas of materiality and lived experience further into the study of Roman magic, a field that has, until recently, lacked object-focused analysis. Building on the pioneering studies in Boschung and Bremmer's (2015) Materiality of Magic, the editors of the present volume have collected contributions that showcase the value of richly-detailed, context-specific explorations of the magical practices of the Roman world. By concentrating primarily on the Imperial period and the western provinces, the various contributions demonstrate very clearly the exceptional range of influences and possibilities open to individuals who sought to use magical rituals to affect their lives in these specific contexts – something that would have been largely impossible in earlier periods of antiquity. Contributions are presented from a range of museum professionals, commercial archaeologists, university academics and postgraduate students, making a compelling case for strengthening lines of communication between these related areas of expertise.

Author : Adam Rogers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004249752

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Water and Roman Urbanism by Adam Rogers Pdf

Water and Roman Urbanism: Towns, Waterscapes, Land Transformation and Experience in Roman Britain offers a new perspective for investigating Roman settlement and how urban spaces were created and experienced by focusing on the relationship between settlement and water and the meanings attributed to these places. Rather than a descriptive approach to the urban fabric it emphasises social context and cultural meaning through interpretative frameworks of analysis. Central are the cultural and experiential implications of water forming part of towns, rather than economic and practical arguments, and the way in which these places were used and altered over time. The book emphasises a social approach and has considerable implications for our understanding of life in the Roman period as a whole.

Author : Gavin Speed
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784910051

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Towns in the Dark by Gavin Speed Pdf

The focus of this book is to draw together still scattered data to chart and interpret the changing nature of life in towns from the late Roman period through to the mid-Anglo-Saxon period. Did towns fail? Were these ruinous sites really neglected by early Anglo-Saxon settlers and leaders?

Author : John Schofield
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781785702761

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St Paul's Cathedral by John Schofield Pdf

This is the first volume concerned solely with the archaeology of a major late 17th century building in London, and the major changes it has undergone. St Paul’s Cathedral in the City of London was built in 1675–1711 to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren and has been described as an iconic building many times. In this major new account, John Schofield examines the cathedral from an archaeological perspective, reviewing its history from the early 18th to the early 21st century, as illustrated by recent archaeological recording, documentary research and engineering assessment. A detailed account of the construction of the cathedral is provided based on a comparison of the fabric with voluminous building accounts which have survived and evidence from recent archaeological investigation. The construction of the Wren building and its embellishments are followed by the main works of later surveyors such as Robert Mylne and Francis Penrose. The 20th century brought further changes and conservation projects, including restoration after the building was hit by two bombs in World War II, and all its windows blown out. The 1990s and first years of the present century have witnessed considerable refurbishment and cleaning involving archaeological and engineering works. Archaeological specialist reports and an engineering review of the stability and character of the building are provided.

Author : Colin Elliott
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691219158

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Pox Romana by Colin Elliott Pdf

"A new account of the Antonine plague and its long-lasting effects on the history of the Roman empire"--

Author : Alan K. Bowman,Peter Garnsey,Dominic Rathbone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1252 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0521263352

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The Cambridge Ancient History by Alan K. Bowman,Peter Garnsey,Dominic Rathbone Pdf

Author : Dominic Perring,Steve Roskams,Patrick Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 0906780926

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Early Development of Roman London West of the Walbrook by Dominic Perring,Steve Roskams,Patrick Allen Pdf

Author : Dominic Perring
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135376970

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Roman London by Dominic Perring Pdf

First Published in 2004.Precious little of Roman London survives and the destruction of Roman levels continues fast as new office foundations are sunk ever deeper into ancient levels. In recent years the close attention of the archaeologists of the Museum of London, encouraged by the cooperation of City developers, has allowed the detailed recording of much that is being lost. In just four years, from 1986 to 1989, work was started on about 200 archaeological sites in the City, and many others were dug in the neighbouring boroughs. Every year a mountain of new information and material is added to the stores of the Museum of London. The first purpose of this book is to bring together as much as possible of this new information, in the hope that it will allow progress to be assessed and new questions asked.