The Roman Villa At Shakenoak Farm Oxfordshire Excavations 1960 1976

Author : Arthur Charles Conant Brodribb
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Villa at Shakenoak Farm, Oxfordshire, Excavations 1960-1976 written by Arthur Charles Conant Brodribb and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2005 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The excavation of the Roman villa at Shakenoak Farm, Oxfordshire, was carried out between 1960 and 1976 and the results were published in five volumes between 1968 and 1978. This volume is a republication of these original reports, and is presented as a memorial to Conant Brodribb and David Walker. With a preface by A. R. Hands.

Author : Martin Henig
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 180327381X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Villas, Sanctuaries and Settlement in the Romano-British Countryside written by Martin Henig and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Nick Stoodley
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789695880
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romano-British Villa and Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Eccles, Kent written by Nick Stoodley and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a study of the central and lower Medway valley during the 1st millennium AD, focussing on the 1962–1976 excavation of the Eccles Roman villa and Anglo-Saxon cemetery directed by Alex Detsicas. The author gives an account of the long history of the villa, and a reassessment of the architectural evidence which Detsicas presented.

Author : Mark Merrony
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351702793
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plight of Rome in the Fifth Century AD written by Mark Merrony and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Plight of Rome in the Fifth Century AD argues that the fall of the western Roman Empire was rooted in a significant drop in war booty, agricultural productivity, and mineral resources. Merrony proposes that a dependency on the three economic components was established with the Principate, when a precedent was set for an unsustainable threshold on military spending. Drawing on literary and archaeological data, this volume establishes a correspondence between booty (in the form of slaves and precious metals) from foreign campaigns and public building programmes, and how this equilibrium was upset after the Empire reached its full expansion and began to contract in the third century. It is contended that this trend was exacerbated by the systematic loss of agricultural productivity (principally grain, but also livestock), as successive barbarian tribes were settled and wrested control from the imperial authorities in the fifth century. Merrony explores how Rome was weakened and divided, unable to pay its army, feed its people, or support the imperial bureaucracy – and how this contributed to its administrative collapse.

Author : Mark McKarracher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1911188348
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farming Transformed in Anglo-Saxon England written by Mark McKarracher and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglo-Saxon farming has traditionally been seen as the wellspring of English agriculture, setting the pattern for 1000 years to come – but it was more important than that. A rich harvest of archaeological data is now revealing the untold story of agricultural innovation, the beginnings of a revolution, in the age of Bede. Armed with a powerful new dataset, Farming Transformed explores fundamental questions about the minutiae of early medieval farming and its wider relevance. How old were sheep left to grow, for example, and what pathologies did cattle sustain? What does wheat chaff have to do with lordship and the market economy? What connects ovens in Roman Germany with barley maltings in early medieval Northamptonshire? And just how interested were Saxon nuns in cultivating the opium poppy? Farming Transformed is the first book to draw together the variegated evidence of pollen, sediments, charred seeds, animal bones, watermills, corn-drying ovens, granaries and stockyards on an extensive, regional scale. The result is an inter-disciplinary dataset of unprecedented scope and size, which reveals how cereal cultivation boomed, and new watermills, granaries and ovens were erected to cope with – and flaunt – the fat of the land. As arable farming grew at the expense of pasture, sheep and cattle came under closer management and lived longer lives, yielding more wool, dairy goods, and traction power for plowing. These and other innovations are found to be concentrated at royal, aristocratic and monastic centers, placing lordship at the forefront of agricultural innovation, and farming as the force behind kingdom-formation and economic resurgence in the seventh and eighth centuries.

Author : Chloë N. Duckworth
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198860846
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recycling and Reuse in the Roman Economy written by Chloë N. Duckworth and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recycling and reuse of materials and objects were extensive in the past, but have rarely been embedded into models of the economy: this volume is the first to explore these practices in the Roman economy, drawing on a variety of methodological approaches and new scientific developments in a wide-ranging interdisciplinary study.

Author : Wendy A. Morrison
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443885584
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Complex Assemblages, Complex Social Structures written by Wendy A. Morrison and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late Iron Age and Early Roman Britain has often been homogenised by models that focus on the resistance/assimilation dichotomy during the period of transition. Complex Assemblages examines the rural settlements of this period through the lens of Cultural Theory in order to tease out the more nuanced and diverse human landscape that the material suggests. This approach develops new ways of thinking about the variability observed in rural settlements from the end of the Middle Iron Age (MIA) to the early 2nd century AD; the selected study area is the Upper and Middle Thames Valley. This book uses the grid/group designations of Mary Douglas’ Cultural Theory as a tool to produce a more multifaceted picture of the period, exploring the assemblages of these rural settlements to understand the nature of the socio-political structures of the region, beyond the anonymity of tribal affiliation and the faceless economic dichotomy of high and low status.

Author : Dr Miles Russell
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752469290
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book UnRoman Britain written by Dr Miles Russell and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman Britain is usually thought of as a land full of togas, towns and baths with Britons happily going about their Roman lives under the benign gaze of Rome. This is, to a great extent, a myth that developed after Roman control of Britain came to an end, in particular when the British Empire was at its height in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In fact, Britain was one of the least enthusiastic elements of the Roman Empire. The northern part of Britain was never conquered at all despite repeated attempts. Some Britons adopted Roman ways in order to advance themselves and become part of the new order, of just because they liked the new range of products available. However, many failed to acknowledge the Roman lifestyle at all, while many others were only outwardly Romanised, clinging to their own identities under the occupation. Britain never fully embraced the Empire and was itself never fully accepted by the rest of the Roman world. Even the Roman army in Britain became chronically rebellious and a source of instability that ultimately affected the whole Empire. As Roman power weakened, the Britons abandoned both Rome and almost all Roman culture, and the island became a land of warring kingdoms, as it had been before.

Author : Stephen Trow
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming Roman, Being Gallic, Staying British written by Stephen Trow and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Excavations at Ditches in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds during the 1980s investigated a large late Iron Age enclosure which proved to contain a remarkably early Roman villa. Discoveries included a well-preserved cellar and a range of finds, including Gallo-Belgic wares, Iron Age coins, coin moulds, Venus figurines and brooches indicating high-status occupation in the late Iron Age and early Roman period. This volume not only includes a report on the excavations of 1984-5, but also additional work, including a new geophysical survey and reassessment of the finds. Alongside re-appraisal of much of the 1980s evidence, this analysis allows the earlier material to be compared with more recent studies of the late Iron Age-Roman transition contributing to debates over processes of 'Romanization', questions of social and political continuity and the nature of villa development in Britain."--Jacket.

Author : Jason Lundock
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 178491181X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Study of the Deposition and Distribution of Copper Alloy Vessels in Roman Britain written by Jason Lundock and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.