Introduction to Roman Britain

Perhaps the shifting of the label of the Brigantes from the kingdom and community of Cartimandua to the new civitas at Aldborough represents a transfer of power between people, as well as places? Overall this is a thorough synthesis of a very significant site for understanding Roman Britain as a whole, and the north in particular, and Rose Ferraby, Martin Millett and all those involved in the project are to be congratulated on its publication.

CONCLUSIONS Cataract surgery might have been performed in Roman Britain.

This example appears to be the first definitive archaeologically excavated instance of an individual buried in this manner in Roman Britain.

It argues that some of the extreme reactions to the idea that people came from North Africa to settle and to live in Roman Britain may have drawn upon some old-fashioned ideas about the past that have persisted in school education in England.

This note describes the find itself and its context, presents an overview of similar finds from Roman Britain and offers a glimpse into the significance of the sherd as evidence for Christianity in Roman Britain and its place in the dynamic religious landscape of Roman Southwark.

Understanding the infancy of Roman Britain’s mural barrier requires exploring the eventful context in which this imperial prestige project took shape, got mixed up conceptually and was set right again around AD 122.

The large-scale provision of defences around small towns in Roman Britain during the second century is without parallel in the Roman Empire.

“The economy of Roman Britain.

Never previously subject to a discussion in print, this article considers the phallus through the lenses of apotropaic magic and the magico-medicinal and socio-religious significance of deer and deer products in Roman Britain.

The Chernyakhov population presents high dental wear and similar frequency of dental calculus when compared to the population from Roman Britain.

Greene focuses on the social side of Roman military life in the first and second centuries AD: more specifically, she provides a complete analysis of the role of families in camp life in Roman Britain and German provinces.

The study of jewellery allows us to identify distinct choices of style, colour and techniques in different parts of Roman Britain.

The paper considers the impact of the results on both our understanding of this unique landscape and broader methodological approaches to the study of rural settlement in Roman Britain.

This approach allows us to investigate perceptions of legal identity in Post-Roman Britain and the echoes of Latin learning embraced in Ireland.

The TRAC session that led to this series of combined mini-papers was consciously designed as a forum for discussion, the aim being to consider how to tackle perceived systemic problems in the archaeology of Roman Britain (as much as the archaeology of other periods) that lead to destructive methods, interpretive fallacies and poor job satisfaction.

The evidence of the character and purpose of settlements previously described as defended ‘small towns’ is reviewed in the light of knowledge accrued since the implementation of Planning Policy Guidance 16 in 1990, the same year as the publication of Burnham and Wacher's survey, The ‘Small Towns’ of Roman Britain.

This paper is focussed on the treatment of h in initial position in non-literary texts written on tablet from Roman Britain.

This research combines, Cybercartography, a geographic information system (GIS) with fuzzy set theory, and remote sensing in the study of Roman Britain.

Background: The population of Roman Britain are renowned for having elevated nitrogen (δ15) stable isotope values, which have been interpreted as evidence for the increased consumption of marine products.

This volume is amost important contribution to our understanding of the archaeology of one of East Yorkshire’s most important archaeological regionsandwillbeof interest toall thosewithaparticular interest in Roman Britain.

Williams discusses the coming of literacy with the Latin alphabet to Ireland from Roman Britain, which resulted in writings in Latin, and the Irish language using the Latin alphabet.

Logically, learning as much as possible about the exact nature of that source would be of great use in better understanding post-Roman Britain.

This paper is focused on the women who appear in the military inscriptions of Roman Britain.

Wells, but we have also studies done by Richard Higley concerning Roman Britain, Susan Frankenstein and Michael Rowland concerning the social hierarchy in Roman Germany.

Britannia Romana: Roman inscriptions and Roman Britain, by Roger S.