- Roman Archaeology, Iron Age Britain (Archaeology), Greek Archaeology, Late Antique Archaeology, Roman History, Material Culture Studies, and 22 moreTheoretical Archaeology, Museum Studies, Western Roman Provinces, Roman Britain, British Museum, Late Antiquity, Imperial Rome, Roman Art, Ancient Greek and Roman Art, Classics, Latin Epigraphy, Anatolian Archaeology, Roman Provincial Archaeology, Roman Bronze Vessels, Roman Bronzes, Roman Small Finds, Tim Ingold, Archaeological Theory, Early Medieval Archaeology, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, and Roman ritualsedit
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Small finds and urbanism in Roman Britain. DOMINIC PERRING and MARTIN PITTS, with contributions from G. Ayton, T. Clifford, M. Curteis, A. Doherty and A. Wardle, illustrations by F. Griffin, O. Mason, M. Massa and J. Russell, ALIEN CITIES. CONSUMPTION AND THE ORIGINS OF URBANISM IN ROMAN BRITAIN ...more
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Antonine Wall, both visible and invisible. Preservation varies considerably along the frontier, with the massive border ditch still cleaving a fissure through long swathes of the landscape. In places, most famously just west of Rough... more
Antonine Wall, both visible and invisible. Preservation varies considerably along the frontier, with the massive border ditch still cleaving a fissure through long swathes of the landscape. In places, most famously just west of Rough Castle, the turf rampart also remains impressive, while visitors to Bearsden are rewarded with the surviving masonry of the fort bathhouse. In general, though, stonework is a rare sight along the Antonine Wall, and many stretches of its fragile earthworks have been levelled over the passing centuries, or obliterated by canals, roads, railways, housing schemes, and mineral extraction. By providing plans of the forts and other key elements of the frontier with select modern roads and buildings superimposed on the Roman features, this book offers invaluable assistance to anyone seeking to orientate themselves along some of these less frequented parts of the border. Directions to the sites and details of salient museums are provided in the text, while the bibliography offers a helpful starting point for anyone wishing to delve deeper into the literature. Despite the modest price of the guide, it is handsomely illustrated with reconstruction drawings, excavation photographs, a selection of the iconic sculpted distance slabs recording construction by legionary work parties, and the results of a 2005 geophysical survey showing much of the stone fort at Balmuildy. Many of these images are in colour. A judicious selection of aerial photographs is especially enlightening for those experiencing the military works at a rather lower altitude. When seeking to understand the role of Rome’s frontiers, nothing can be more instructive than comparing and contrasting them on the ground. Visitors exploring the Antonine Wall with both this handbook and the 1:25,000 map of the frontier produced by the former RCAHMS in their pockets will be well equipped to derive maximum benefit from their trip. This reviewer believes that those journeying along the Antonine Wall will discover a frontier that differs from its more rigidly ordered southern neighbour, as this monument pays closer attention to the strengths and weaknesses of the local physical and — presumably — human geography. Adopting a holistic approach to the landscape ought to have enhanced the army’s ability to enforce the movement controls that the border was designed to impose.
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By examining patterns in depositional practice as well as geographic and site distribution of copper alloy vessels in Roman Britain, this book offers an analysis of the varying and divergent practices of material culture in the British... more
By examining patterns in depositional practice as well as geographic and site distribution of copper alloy vessels in Roman Britain, this book offers an analysis of the varying and divergent practices of material culture in the British provinces under Roman rule. The work also seeks to offer a useful classification system for the study and discussion of copper alloy vessels by adapting familiar typology as well as introducing new vocabulary. Analysis is given to patterns in the deposition of vessel forms during the Roman period in Britain as well as addressing their spatial relation to other objects and their use of decoration. Insight is also offered into the functional application of these objects and their use of decoration. Insight is also offered into the functional application of these objects and how changing culture practice led to the shifting of use from smaller vessel forms in the early Roman period to larger vessel forms in Late Antiquity. Additionally, the discussion offered in this book serves as a case study in the application of small finds research to the larger theoretical debates concerning Rome and its provinces.
