Villas, sanctuaries and settlement in the Romano-British countryside : new perspectives and controversies /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Henig, Martin (Editor ), Soffe, Grahame (Editor ), Adcock, Kate (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing, 2023.
Colección:Archaeopress Roman archaeology ; v.95.
Temas:
To 1500
Excavations (Archaeology) > Great Britain.
Architecture, Domestic > Great Britain > History > To 1500.
Romans > Great Britain.
Architecture, Domestic.
Classical antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Romans.
Great Britain > Antiquities, Roman.
Great Britain.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Information
  • Copyright Information
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Roman villas in Britain and beyond
  • Figure 1.1 The 'Leopard Mosaic', from Dewlish villa, Dorset. This was recently acquired for Dorset County Museum from private owners, after a fund-raising campaign. (Photo courtesy of Dorset County Museum and Anthony Beeson)
  • Figure 1.2. Map of villas in Table 1.1, and of the villas that are the subject of papers in this volume (individually named). NB, seven villas in Table 1.1, Aiskew (N Yorks), Beadlam (N Yorks), Eastfield (N Yorks), Ingleby Barwick (Teesside), Ketton (Rutl
  • Where, when and what for? Coin use in the Romano-British countryside
  • Figure 2.1. The distribution of all Roman coins recorded by the PAS between 1997 and 2011 (a dot can represent anything from a single coin to an assemblage of more than 1000).
  • Figure 2.2. The distribution of site and parish assemblages.
  • Figure 2.3. Bar-chart profile for rural coin loss compared with the PAS mean.
  • Figure 2.4. The distribution of, a) all sites with specifically 'rural' site profiles, compared with,
  • b) the distribution of villas (English Heritage dataset).
  • Figure 2.5. The decline of rural coin loss in the fourth century AD, a) late third to early fourth century profiles.
  • Villa mosaics and archaeology
  • Figure 3.1. Whitley Grange villa, painting of the mosaic by David Neal. (Copyright David Neal)
  • Figure 3.2. Bignor villa, Ganymede mosaic. (From Lysons 1817, pl. V)
  • Figure 3.3. Bradford on Avon villa, mosaic in apse. (Photograph P. Witts, courtesy of M. Corney)
  • Figure 3.4. Verulamium, Building XXVII,2, Room 8/9, Bacchus mosaic, detail. (Copyright School of Archaeology, University of Oxford)
  • The Roman villas of the Lower Nene Valley and the Praetorium at Castor
  • Figure 4.1. The area of the Lower Nene Valley.
  • Figure 4.2. The villa at Ailsworth shown under excavation by Edmund Artis in the 1820s.
  • Figure 4.3. The villa at Cotterstock showing three of the four courtyards.
  • Figure 4.4. Plan of the site at Bedford Purlieus.
  • Figure 4.5. View of building 'y' at Bedford Purlieus under excavation in 2010.
  • Figure 4.6. Comparative plans of some Nene Valley courtyard villas.
  • Figure 4.7. The site at Fotheringhay with a villa and its possible associated village.
  • Figure 4.8. The complex site at Lynch Farm showing dispersed Roman buildings.
  • Figure 4.9. Major villa distribution in the Lower Nene Valley.
  • Figure 4.10. Possible villa estates at Yarwell and Fotheringhay.
  • Figure 4.11. Major Roman buildings within the Fenland basin and the Lower Nene Valley.

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