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Author : John Pearce,Sally Worrell
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781445686851
Delving into the Portable Antiquities Scheme archives to explore 50 finds from Britain's Roman history.
Author : Andrew Brown
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445696348
Looking at some of the fascinating examples of Roman coinage recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme.
Author : Tom Brindle
Publisher : British Museum Research Public
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 0861591968
The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a project run by the British Museum which encourages the voluntary reporting of archaeological artefacts discovered by members of the public in England and Wales, particularly metal detector users. Finds are recorded onto a database (available at www.finds.org.uk), and this resource now holds records for over 800,000 archaeological objects, a figure which increases on a daily basis. Since its establishment in 1997, it has become a key resource for archaeological researchers. Around 40 per cent of the artefacts recorded on the database are of Roman date, and the principal aim of this book is to assess the contribution that this resource can make to our understanding of Roman Britain. Bringing together vast quantities of seemingly random finds scattered across the English and Welsh countryside, Tom Brindle brings order to this data by showing how it can be used to indicate the presence of 240 previously unknown Roman sites. These sites are presented within a series of regional case studies which discuss important new sites as well as statistics that contribute significantly to the understanding of the density of settlement in rural Roman Britain.
Author : Martin Millett,Louise Revell,Alison Moore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 945 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191002533
This book provides a twenty-first century perspective on Roman Britain, combining current approaches with the wealth of archaeological material from the province. This volume introduces the history of research into the province and the cultural changes at the beginning and end of the Roman period. The majority of the chapters are thematic, dealing with issues relating to the people of the province, their identities and ways of life. Further chapters consider the characteristics of the province they lived in, such as the economy, and settlement patterns. This Handbook reflects the new approaches being developed in Roman archaeology, and demonstrates why the study of Roman Britain has become one of the most dynamic areas of archaeology. The book will be useful for academics and students interested in Roman Britain.
Author : Hella Eckardt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199693986
This volume explores Rome's northern provinces through the portable artefacts people used and left behind. Objects are crucial to our understanding of the past, and can be used to explore interlinking aspects of identity. For example, can we identify incomers? How are exotic materials (such as amber and ivory) and objects depicting 'the exotic' (e.g. Africans) consumed? Do regional styles exist below the homogenizing influence of Roman trade? How do all these aspects of identity interact with others, such as status, gender, and age? In this innovative study, the author combines theoretical awareness and a willingness to engage with questions of social and cultural identity with a thorough investigation into the well-published but underused material culture of Rome's northern provinces. Pottery and coins, the dominant categories of many other studies, have here been largely excluded in favour of small portable objects such as items of personal adornment, amulets, and writing equipment. The case studies included were chosen because they relate to specific, often interlinking aspects of identity such as provincial, elite, regional, or religious identity. Their meaning is explored in their own right and in depth, and in careful examination of their contexts. It is hoped that these case studies will be of use to archaeologists working in other periods, and indeed to students of material culture generally by making a small contribution to a growing corpus of academic and popular books that develop interpretative, historical narratives from selected objects.
Author : Richard Hingley,Steven Willis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785705014
Studies on finds in Roman Britain and the Western Provinces have come to greater prominence in the literature of recent years. The quality of such work has also improved, and is now theoretically informed, and based on rich data-sets. Work on finds over the last decade or two has changed our understanding of the Roman era in profound ways, and yet despite such encouraging advances and such clear worth, there has to date, been little in the way of a dedicated forum for the presentation and evaluation of current approaches to the study of material culture. The conference at which these papers were initially presented has gone some way to redressing this, and these papers bring the very latest studies on Roman finds to a wider audience. Twenty papers are here presented covering various themes.
Author : Iain Ferris
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445615868
An alternative history of Roman Britain
Author : T. F. Martin,R. Weech
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781785703188
While traditional studies of dress and jewellery have tended to focus purely on reconstruction or descriptions of style, chronology and typology, the social context of costume is now a major research area in archaeology. This refocusing is largely a result of the close relationship between dress and three currently popular topics: identity, bodies and material culture. Not only does dress constitute an important means by which people integrate and segregate to form group identities, but interactions between objects and bodies, quintessentially illustrated by dress, can also form the basis of much wider symbolic systems. Consequently, archaeological understandings of clothing shed light on some of the fundamental aspects of society, hence our intentionally unconditional title. Dress and Society illustrates the range of current archaeological approaches to dress using a number of case studies drawn from prehistoric to post-medieval Europe. Individually, each chapter makes a strong contribution in its own field whether through the discussion of new evidence or new approaches to classic material. Presenting the eight papers together creates a strong argument for a theoretically informed and integrated approach to dress as a specific category of archaeological evidence, emphasising that the study of dress not only draws openly on other disciplines, but is also a sub-discipline in its own right. However, rather than delimiting dress to a specialist area of research we seek to promote it as fundamental to any holistic archaeological understanding of past societies.
Author : Sam Moorhead,Greg Payne,Portable Antiquities Scheme (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Coins, Roman
ISBN : 1897738544
Author : Roger White,Mike Hodder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785709234
The general perception of the west midlands region in the Roman period is that it was a backwater compared to the militarized frontier zone of the north, or the south of Britain where Roman culture took root early – in cities like Colchester, London ,and St Albans – and lingered late at cities like Cirencester and Bath with their rich, late Roman villa culture. The west midlands region captures the transition between these two areas of the ‘military’ north and ‘civilized’ south. Where it differed, and why, are important questions in understanding the regional diversity of Roman Britain. They are addressed by this volume which details the archaeology of the Roman period for each of the modern counties of the region, written by local experts who are or have been responsible for the management and exploration of their respective counties. These are placed alongside more thematic takes on elements of Roman culture, including the Roman Army, pottery, coins and religion. Lastly, an overview is taken of the important transitional period of the fifth and sixth centuries. Each paper provides both a developed review of the existing state of knowledge and understanding of the key characteristics of the subject area and details a set of research objectives for the future, immediate and long-term, that will contribute to our evolving understanding of Roman Britain. This is the third volume in a series – The Making of the West Midlands – that explores the archaeology of the English west midlands region from the Lower Palaeolithic onwards.
Author : Sam Moorhead,David Stuttard
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780500773475
A biographical history of the Romans who conquered and dominated Britain, based on the latest archaeological evidence and original source material. Here are the stories of the people who built and ruled Roman Britain, from the eagle-bearer who leaped off Caesar’s ship into the waves at Walmer in 55BC to the last cavalry units to withdraw from the island under their dragon standards in the early fifth century AD. Through the lives of its generals and governors, this book explores the narrative of Britannia as an integral and often troublesome part of Rome’s empire, a hard-won province whose mineral wealth and agricultural prosperity made it crucial to the stability of the West. But Britannia did not exist in a vacuum, and the authors set it in an international context to give a vivid account of the pressures and events that had a profound impact on its people and its history. The authors discuss the lives and actions of the Roman occupiers against the backdrop of an evolving landscape, where Iron Age shrines were replaced by marble temples and industrial-scale factories and granaries sprang up across the countryside.
Author : Roger Bland,Adrian Chadwick,Colin Haselgrove,David Mattingley
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781785708589
More coin hoards have been recorded from Roman Britain than from any other province of the Empire. This comprehensive and lavishly illustrated volume provides a survey of over 3260 hoards of Iron Age and Roman coins found in England and Wales with a detailed analysis and discussion. Theories of hoarding and deposition and examined, national and regional patterns in the landscape settings of coin hoards presented, together with an analysis of those hoards whose findspots were surveyed and of those hoards found in archaeological excavations. It also includes an unprecedented examination of the containers in which coin hoards were buried and the objects found with them. The patterns of hoarding in Britain from the late 2nd century BC to the 5th century AD are discussed. The volume also provides a survey of Britain in the 3rd century AD, as a peak of over 700 hoards are known from the period from AD 253296. This has been a particular focus of the project which has been a collaborative research venture between the University of Leicester and the British Museum funded by the AHRC. The aim has been to understand the reasons behind the burial and non-recovery of these finds. A comprehensive online database (https://finds.org.uk/database) underpins the project, which also undertook a comprehensive GIS analysis of all the hoards and field surveys of a sample of them.
Author : Adam Daubney
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781445658124
Explores 50 of Lincolnshire's most fascinating finds.
Author : Stuart Laycock
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780752487656
Attempts to understand how Roman Britain ends and Anglo-Saxon England begins have been undermined by the division of studies into pre-Roman, Roman and early medieval periods. This groundbreaking new study traces the history of British tribes and British tribal rivalries from the pre-Roman period, through the Roman period and into the post-Roman period. It shows how tribal conflict was central to the arrival of Roman power in Britain and how tribal identities persisted through the Roman period and were a factor in three great convulsions that struck Britain during the Roman centuries. It explores how tribal conflicts may have played a major role in the end of Roman Britain, creating a 'failed state' scenario akin in some ways to those seen recently in Bosnia and Iraq, and brought about the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons. Finally, it considers how British tribal territories and British tribal conflicts can be understood as the direct predecessors of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and Anglo-Saxon conflicts that form the basis of early English History.
Author : British Museum. Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities,J. W. Brailsford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Art, Roman
ISBN : UOM:39015013667723
"The Guide is the work of Mr. J.W. Brailsford ... Deputy Keeper." Bibliography: p. [79]-81.
