Excavation Of The Iron Age Roman And Medieval Settlement At Gorhambury St Albans

Author : David S Neal,Angela Wardle,Jonathan Hunn
Publisher : English Heritage
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848021464

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Excavation of the Iron Age, Roman and Medieval settlement at Gorhambury, St Albans by David S Neal,Angela Wardle,Jonathan Hunn Pdf

Gorhambury, just north of Verulamium, was the site of a substantial Roman villa complex which was excavated between 1972 and 1982 as part of a programme designed to test the interrelationships between villa sites in the Verulamium area and to examine trends in their growth, decline and prosperity. The villa was found to have grown out of a settlement belonging to the late Iron Age. A series of ditches of this phase enclosed an aisled barn, a nine-post granary and a circular house; these were the beginnings of a sequence of structures on the same spot which show increasing signs of Roman influence, all of which lay within the limits of the farmstead established at this early period. Timber buildings of the first half of the first century were followed around AD100, by a small but luxurious villa, rebuilt in the late second century, and thereafter in a gradual decline until its apparent abandonment around AD 350. Work on virtually the whole of the farmstead area has enabled a full sequence of plans of the main houses and all the ancillary structures - including barns, subsidiary housing and bath-houses - to be presented in the report. The catalogue of finds is an attempt to show the full range of material recovered from this working farmstead.

Author : D. W. Harding
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199558575

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The Iron Age Round-House by D. W. Harding Pdf

A fully illustrated study of Iron Age round-houses, which explores not just their architectural aspects but more importantly their role in the social, economic and ritual structure of their communities, and their significance as symbols of Iron Age society in the face of Romanization.

Author : Dennis W. Harding
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317296508

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The Iron Age in Northern Britain by Dennis W. Harding Pdf

The Iron Age in Northern Britain examines the archaeological evidence for earlier Iron Age communities from the southern Pennines to the Northern and Western Isles and the impact of Roman expansion on local populations, through to the emergence of historically-recorded communities in the post-Roman period. The text has been comprehensively revised and expanded to include new discoveries and to take account of advanced techniques, with many new and updated illustrations. The volume presents a comprehensive picture of the ‘long Iron Age’, allowing readers to appreciate how perceptions of Iron Age societies have changed significantly in recent years. New material in this second edition also addresses the key issues of social reconstruction, gender, and identity, as well as assessing the impact of developer-funded archaeology on the discipline. Drawing on recent excavation and research and interpreting evidence from key studies across Scotland and northern England, The Iron Age in Northern Britain continues to be an accessible and authoritative study of later prehistory in the region.

Author : Sam Lucy,Christopher Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785702716

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Romano-British Settlement and Cemeteries at Mucking by Sam Lucy,Christopher Evans Pdf

Excavations at Mucking, Essex, between 1965 and 1978, revealed extensive evidence for a multiphase rural Romano-British settlement, perhaps an estate center, and five associated cemetery areas (170 burials) with different burial areas reserved for different groups within the settlement. The settlement demonstrated clear continuity from the preceding Iron Age occupation with unbroken sequences of artefacts and enclosures through the first century AD, followed by rapid and extensive remodeling, which included the laying out a Central Enclosure and an organized water supply with wells, accompanied by the start of large-scale pottery production. After the mid-second century AD the Central Enclosure was largely abandoned and settlement shifted its focus more to the Southern Enclosure system with a gradual decline though the 3rd and 4th centuries although continued burial, pottery and artefactual deposition indicate that a form of settlement continued, possibly with some low-level pottery production. Some of the latest Roman pottery was strongly associated with the earliest Anglo-Saxon style pottery suggesting the existence of a terminal Roman settlement phase that essentially involved an ‘Anglo-Saxon’ community. Given recent revisions of the chronology for the early Anglo-Saxon period, this casts an intriguing light on the transition, with radical implications for understandings of this period. Each of the cemetery areas was in use for a considerable length of time. Taken as a whole, Mucking was very much a componented place/complex; it was its respective parts that fostered its many cemeteries, whose diverse rites reflect the variability and roles of the settlement’s evidently varied inhabitants.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 0719018757

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British and Irish Archaeology by Anonim Pdf

Author : Brittany Elayne Hill
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784915971

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Birds, Beasts and Burials: A study of the human-animal relationship in Romano-British St. Albans by Brittany Elayne Hill Pdf

Birds, Beasts and Burials examines human-animal relationships as found in the mortuary record within the area of Verulamium that is now situated in the modern town of St. Albans.

Author : Malcolm Todd
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780470998854

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A Companion to Roman Britain by Malcolm Todd Pdf

This major survey of the history and culture of Roman Britain spans the period from the first century BC to the fifth century AD. Major survey of the history and culture of Roman Britain Brings together specialists to provide an overview of recent debates about this period Exceptionally broad coverage, embracing political, economic, cultural and religious life Focuses on changes in Roman Britain from the first century BC to the fifth century AD Includes pioneering studies of the human population and animal resources of the island.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848021938

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Radiocarbon Dates by Anonim Pdf

This volume holds a datelist of radiocarbon determinations carried out between 1970 and 1982 on behalf of the Ancient Monuments Laboratory, now part of English Heritage. It also contains supporting information about the samples and the sites producing them, a comprehensive bibliography, and three indexes for reference and analysis. The datelist has been collated to give access to a large body of information which, although mostly published elsewhere, has never before been accessible in a consistent form. When these dates were produced, high-precision calibration was not possible; now that this is available all dates have been converted, thus giving archaeologists and others using radiocarbon dates the opportunity to review their dating results in the light of this calibration, and with hindsight. The indexes order the complex information contained in the datelist by HAR numbers and by true calendar dates.

Author : Martin Henig,Grahame Soffe,Kate Adcock,Anthony King
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803273815

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Villas, Sanctuaries and Settlement in the Romano-British Countryside by Martin Henig,Grahame Soffe,Kate Adcock,Anthony King Pdf

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 : Christopher Evans,Grahame Appleby,Sam Lucy
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785701511

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Lives in Land – Mucking excavations by Christopher Evans,Grahame Appleby,Sam Lucy Pdf

The excavations led by Margaret and Tom Jones on the Thames gravel terraces at Mucking, Essex, undertaken between 1965 and 1978 are legendary. The largest area excavation ever undertaken in the British Isles, involving around 5000 participants, recorded around 44,000 archaeological features dating from the Beaker to Anglo-Saxon periods and recovered something in the region of 1.7 million finds of Mesolithic to post-medieval date. While various publications have emerged over the intervening years, the death of both directors, insufficient funding, many organizational complications and the sheer volume of material evidence have severely delayed full publication of this extraordinary palimpsest landscape. Lives in Land is the first of two major volumes which bring together all the evidence from Mucking, presenting both the detail of many important structures and assemblages and a comprehensive synthesis of landscape development through the ages: settlement histories, changing land-use, death and burial, industry and craft activities. The long time-gap since completion of the excavations has allowed the authors the unprecedented opportunity to stand back from the density of site data and place the vast sum of Mucking evidence in the wider context of the archaeology of southern England throughout the major periods of occupation and activity. Lives in Land begins with a thorough evaluation of the methods, philosophy and archival status of the Mucking project against the organizational and funding background of its time, and discusses its fascinating and complex history through a period of fundamental change in archaeological practice, legislation, finance, research priorities and theoretical paradigms in British Archaeology. Subsequent chapters deal with the prehistoric landscape, each focusing on the major themes that emerge by major period from analysis and synthesis of the data. The authors draw on archival material including site notebooks and personal accounts from key participants to provide a detailed but lively account of this iconic landscape investigation.

Author : John Creighton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139431729

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Coins and Power in Late Iron Age Britain by John Creighton Pdf

Cunobelin, Shakespeare's Cymbeline, ruled much of south-east Britain in the years before Claudius' legions arrived, creating the Roman province of Britannia. But what do we know of him and his rule, and that of competing dynasties in south-east Britain? This book examines the background to these, the first individuals in British history. It explores the way in which rulers bolstered their power through the use of imagery on coins, myths, language and material culture. After the visit of Caesar in 55 and 54 BC, the shadow of Rome played a fundamental role in this process. Combining the archaeological, literary and numismatic evidence, John Creighton paints a vivid picture of how people in late Iron Age Britain reacted to the changing world around them.

Author : Kris Lockyear
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781909291478

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Archaeology in Hertfordshire by Kris Lockyear Pdf

Celebrating the rich heritage of archaeology and of archaeological research in Hertfordshire, the 15 papers collected in this work focus on various aspects of the region, including the Neolithic to the post-Medieval periods, and include a report on the important excavations at the formative henge at Norton. Several chapters focus new attention on the Iron Age and Roman periods, both from a landscape perspective and through detailed studies of artefacts, while a discussion of the rare early Saxon material recently excavated at Watton at Stone makes a vital contribution to the existing corpus of knowledge about this little-understood period. All of the papers in the volume focus on the local scene with an understanding of wider issues in each period and as a result, the papers are of importance beyond the boundaries of the county and will be of interest to scholars with wide-ranging interests.

Author : Nick Hodgson,Bill Griffiths
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803273457

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Roman Frontier Archaeology – in Britain and Beyond by Nick Hodgson,Bill Griffiths Pdf

Contributions by leading archaeologists and historians pay tribute to Paul Bidwell, admired for his ground-breaking work both in the south-west and the military north of Roman Britain. This collection will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in either the civil or military aspects of Roman Britain, or the frontiers of the Roman empire.

Author : Adam Rogers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139499514

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Late Roman Towns in Britain by Adam Rogers Pdf

In this book, Adam Rogers examines the late Roman phases of towns in Britain. Critically analysing the archaeological notion of decline, he focuses on public buildings, which played an important role, administrative and symbolic, within urban complexes. Arguing against the interpretation that many of these monumental civic buildings were in decline or abandoned in the later Roman period, he demonstrates that they remained purposeful spaces and important centres of urban life. Through a detailed assessment of the archaeology of late Roman towns, this book argues that the archaeological framework of decline does not permit an adequate and comprehensive understanding of the towns during this period. Moving beyond the idea of decline, this book emphasises a longer-term perspective for understanding the importance of towns in the later Roman period.

Author : J.T. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134705368

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Roman Villas by J.T. Smith Pdf

Roman Villas explores the social structures of the Roman world by analysing the plans of buildings of all sizes from slightly Romanized farms to palaces. The ways in which the rooms are grouped together; how they intercommunicate; and the ways in which individual rooms and the house are approached, reveal various social patterns, which question traditional ideas about the Roman family and household. J. T. Smith argues that virtually all houses were occupied by groups of varying composition, challenging the received wisdom that they were single family houses whose size reflected only the owner's wealth and number of servants. Roman Villas provides a meticulously documented and scholarly examination of the relationship between the living quarters of the Roman and their social and economic development which introduces a new area in Roman studies and a corpus of material for further analysis. The inclusion of almost 500 ground plans, drawn to a uniform scale, allows the reader to compare the similarities and differences between house structure as well as effectively illustrating the arguments.