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... Britain,” which explores villa architecture and typology.2 Chapter three, “The Mosaic Pavements” by D. J. Smith, explores the development of mosaic pavements in Roman Britain, while chapter four, “Furniture in Roman Britain,” by Joan Liversidge, focuses on the furniture and interior design of Romano ...
... Britain,” which explores villa architecture and typology.2 Chapter three, “The Mosaic Pavements” by D. J. Smith, explores the development of mosaic pavements in Roman Britain, while chapter four, “Furniture in Roman Britain,” by Joan Liversidge, focuses on the furniture and interior design of Romano ...
The Roman Invasion of Britain
... and understand why these historians wrote their histories, and for whom. Apart from the odd occasional state-ments by ancient writers, the conquest of Britain was described only by Tacitus and Cassius Dio, but there is little comparison between them. Cassius Dio, a Greek, was more of a compiler than ...
... and understand why these historians wrote their histories, and for whom. Apart from the odd occasional state-ments by ancient writers, the conquest of Britain was described only by Tacitus and Cassius Dio, but there is little comparison between them. Cassius Dio, a Greek, was more of a compiler than ...
IX. THE BARBARICUM IN THE ROMAN PERIOD
... will hardly be remedied in the near future since the number of finds recovered from large-scale rescue excavations eclipses by far the assemblages known to date. The systematic cataloguing and evaluation of the known find assemblages in the past decades has increased the number of known sites by man ...
... will hardly be remedied in the near future since the number of finds recovered from large-scale rescue excavations eclipses by far the assemblages known to date. The systematic cataloguing and evaluation of the known find assemblages in the past decades has increased the number of known sites by man ...
From Prehistory to the Romans
... from which traces of human occupation are found in southern England. The hand-axe, which is now in Reading Museum, was probably dropped by its owner when hunting in the area. It is known as an Acheulian hand-axe because the industry of making stone tools of this sort was first studied by archaeologi ...
... from which traces of human occupation are found in southern England. The hand-axe, which is now in Reading Museum, was probably dropped by its owner when hunting in the area. It is known as an Acheulian hand-axe because the industry of making stone tools of this sort was first studied by archaeologi ...
romans on the don
... Doncaster, for which there is a lot of archaeological evidence, was the creation of a large-scale pottery industry. Pots were few and far between in the Iron Age. This was not because people didn’t know how to make them but because they preferred other materials such as leather, wood and metal to ma ...
... Doncaster, for which there is a lot of archaeological evidence, was the creation of a large-scale pottery industry. Pots were few and far between in the Iron Age. This was not because people didn’t know how to make them but because they preferred other materials such as leather, wood and metal to ma ...
Practical - Kent Archaeological Field School
... as far north as County Durham. Others are known from France, However, as yet only two have been recognised in Kent, those at Leeds and Scotney Castles. The landscape at Leeds seems to have been created by Edward I, probably for his wife, Eleanor of Castile, perhaps in the 1280s. It includes the glor ...
... as far north as County Durham. Others are known from France, However, as yet only two have been recognised in Kent, those at Leeds and Scotney Castles. The landscape at Leeds seems to have been created by Edward I, probably for his wife, Eleanor of Castile, perhaps in the 1280s. It includes the glor ...
From the Late Roman Republican Period to Late Empire
... robe. Basilica of San Vitale, Italy. Empire, the dye was expensive and employed to display social status among the ruling elites. Senators, emperors, and victorious generals all had distinctive elements of murex dye on their clothing. Archaeologists have attempted to find the locations of murex dye ...
... robe. Basilica of San Vitale, Italy. Empire, the dye was expensive and employed to display social status among the ruling elites. Senators, emperors, and victorious generals all had distinctive elements of murex dye on their clothing. Archaeologists have attempted to find the locations of murex dye ...
D002: Roman commerce in pigments 1 Introduction 1. Did the
... to make their own through the migration of people carrying the knowledge from one area to another. The production of white lead (also known as ceruse) began in Greece but travelled to Italy, especially around the Venice area, while the manufacture of Egyptian Blue moved from Alexandria to Naples and ...
... to make their own through the migration of people carrying the knowledge from one area to another. The production of white lead (also known as ceruse) began in Greece but travelled to Italy, especially around the Venice area, while the manufacture of Egyptian Blue moved from Alexandria to Naples and ...
Frisians in Roman Britain in the Light of the Available Epigraphic
... military service and could get a citizenship of Rome as well as a piece of their own land. Still, after becoming an integral part of the Roman society, Germanic warriors, including Frisian ones, maintained contact with their own tribes becoming, at the same time, a great source of information for th ...
... military service and could get a citizenship of Rome as well as a piece of their own land. Still, after becoming an integral part of the Roman society, Germanic warriors, including Frisian ones, maintained contact with their own tribes becoming, at the same time, a great source of information for th ...
Mike Baskott looking for the Romans in the
... An indication of buildings can be detected North of the road the function of which are unknown without further excavation but two of the barrack blocks can be seen. The Romans built their forts to an established and in many cases a prefabricated formula. The standard barrack block would contain 10 r ...
... An indication of buildings can be detected North of the road the function of which are unknown without further excavation but two of the barrack blocks can be seen. The Romans built their forts to an established and in many cases a prefabricated formula. The standard barrack block would contain 10 r ...
Quarry Farm, Ingleby Barwick A Romano-British
... A Brief History of the Site The villa may be the most significant find, but there is much more to the site. There have been people living and working on the banks of the River Tees at Ingleby Barwick for thousands of years. The excavations at Quarry Farm revealed artefacts that charted human histor ...
... A Brief History of the Site The villa may be the most significant find, but there is much more to the site. There have been people living and working on the banks of the River Tees at Ingleby Barwick for thousands of years. The excavations at Quarry Farm revealed artefacts that charted human histor ...
Anglo-Saxons - British Museum
... roofs, known as villas. Some people continued to live in round houses, especially in areas where Roman ways of living had less influence. Villas usually formed the centre of farming estates which produced food crops, timber and animal products such as leather and wool. The main rooms in a villa had ...
... roofs, known as villas. Some people continued to live in round houses, especially in areas where Roman ways of living had less influence. Villas usually formed the centre of farming estates which produced food crops, timber and animal products such as leather and wool. The main rooms in a villa had ...
a roman bronze helmet from hawkedon
... Roman burial was found there in a globular amphora containing two fragmentsof pipeclaystatuettesof Venus.16The amphora and a fragment of one of these statuettes are in the museum at Bury St. Edmunds, and it would not be surprisingif more evidencefor such a settlement were now to come to light; but w ...
... Roman burial was found there in a globular amphora containing two fragmentsof pipeclaystatuettesof Venus.16The amphora and a fragment of one of these statuettes are in the museum at Bury St. Edmunds, and it would not be surprisingif more evidencefor such a settlement were now to come to light; but w ...
Life in Roman Bedfordshire
... that dared identify themselves too closely with the occupying power. But with changes in the personnel of the government, security was eventually restored. The towns were rebuilt, and even rural communities began to acquire whatever aspects of Roman civilisation they could afford. The sons of leadin ...
... that dared identify themselves too closely with the occupying power. But with changes in the personnel of the government, security was eventually restored. The towns were rebuilt, and even rural communities began to acquire whatever aspects of Roman civilisation they could afford. The sons of leadin ...
An aristocratic site in Bassing between independent Gaul and
... illustrate the privileged status of the occupants. Among the jewelry, there were bracelets in cobalt blue glass and a bead in Baltic amber. 123 fibulae were also present, some of which were made at the site. Metalworking was thus one of the resources of this aristocratic site at which casting, spinn ...
... illustrate the privileged status of the occupants. Among the jewelry, there were bracelets in cobalt blue glass and a bead in Baltic amber. 123 fibulae were also present, some of which were made at the site. Metalworking was thus one of the resources of this aristocratic site at which casting, spinn ...
Session Organizer: Eric C. De Sena, PhD John Cabot
... century. A sequence of deposits excavated in summer 2007 contained a large amount of materials dating to the fourth century which indicate that the postRoman city of Porolissum maintained strong ties with the Roman Empire for at least a century. Evidence is in the form of Christian items and sym ...
... century. A sequence of deposits excavated in summer 2007 contained a large amount of materials dating to the fourth century which indicate that the postRoman city of Porolissum maintained strong ties with the Roman Empire for at least a century. Evidence is in the form of Christian items and sym ...
Roman Villa 1937-1938 - Wiltshire OPC Project
... this site or in the immediate neighbourhood, for in one of the hypocausts have been found pieces of wellworked stone, with good mouldings, which have evidently formed part of a cornice or plinth of a classical building, used as bases for some of the piles of tiles supporting the suspended floor. A s ...
... this site or in the immediate neighbourhood, for in one of the hypocausts have been found pieces of wellworked stone, with good mouldings, which have evidently formed part of a cornice or plinth of a classical building, used as bases for some of the piles of tiles supporting the suspended floor. A s ...
Roman art 509 BC
... the friendly exhortations found on early Roman cups. Glass vessels decorated with inscriptions were extremely popular in the first century A.D. and were found throughout the Roman Empire. An artisan made this cup by blowing glass into a baked clay mold, a technique that originated in the first centu ...
... the friendly exhortations found on early Roman cups. Glass vessels decorated with inscriptions were extremely popular in the first century A.D. and were found throughout the Roman Empire. An artisan made this cup by blowing glass into a baked clay mold, a technique that originated in the first centu ...
Roman Grantham
... between Lincolnshire and the continent is the multitude of Samian Ware pottery found in the region which has a distinctive red glaze. This type of pottery was imported into Britain from Gaul and the Rhineland, although in the second century Samian Ware began being manufactured in large quantities th ...
... between Lincolnshire and the continent is the multitude of Samian Ware pottery found in the region which has a distinctive red glaze. This type of pottery was imported into Britain from Gaul and the Rhineland, although in the second century Samian Ware began being manufactured in large quantities th ...
Chapter 9
... A broad agrarian reorganisation did however take place in the province (Bowen 1969), partly with the encoragement of capital investment from Rome (Applebaum 1972, 223; Dio LXII 2). As the Roman influence expanded north and west, the villa system became widespread (Frere 1978, 301-2). For example in ...
... A broad agrarian reorganisation did however take place in the province (Bowen 1969), partly with the encoragement of capital investment from Rome (Applebaum 1972, 223; Dio LXII 2). As the Roman influence expanded north and west, the villa system became widespread (Frere 1978, 301-2). For example in ...
word document - Timetrail
... about archaeological work that was carried out in the West Midlands region in the previous year. It includes information about sites dating from the Prehistoric to the Post Medieval periods. It was produced the Department of Extramural Studies at Birmingham University. Copies are held at the Warwick ...
... about archaeological work that was carried out in the West Midlands region in the previous year. It includes information about sites dating from the Prehistoric to the Post Medieval periods. It was produced the Department of Extramural Studies at Birmingham University. Copies are held at the Warwick ...
All_About...Romans
... military, but a gradual retreat of forces back to Rome. By the middle of the 3rd Century the Roman Empire had extended as far as it could. There were thousands of miles of frontier to defend and over a quarter of a million soldiers employed to do it. Without the continuous addition of land and the w ...
... military, but a gradual retreat of forces back to Rome. By the middle of the 3rd Century the Roman Empire had extended as far as it could. There were thousands of miles of frontier to defend and over a quarter of a million soldiers employed to do it. Without the continuous addition of land and the w ...
Ancient Roman pottery
Pottery was produced in enormous quantities in ancient Rome, mostly for utilitarian purposes. It is found all over the former Roman Empire and beyond. Monte Testaccio is a huge waste mound in Rome made almost entirely of broken amphorae used for transporting and storing liquids and other products – in this case probably mostly Spanish olive oil, which was landed nearby, and was the main fuel for lighting, as well as its use in the kitchen and washing in the baths. It is usual to divide Roman domestic pottery broadly into coarse wares and fine wares, the former being the everyday pottery jars, dishes and bowls that were used for cooking or the storage and transport of foods and other goods, and in some cases also as tableware, and which were often made and bought locally. Fine wares were serving vessels or tableware used for more formal dining, and are usually of more decorative and elegant appearance. Some of the most important of these were made at specialised pottery workshops, and were often traded over substantial distances, not only within, but also between, different provinces of the Roman Empire. For example, dozens of different types of British coarse and fine wares were produced locally, yet many other classes of pottery were also imported from elsewhere in the Empire. The manufacture of fine wares such as terra sigillata took place in large workshop complexes that were organised along industrial lines and produced highly standardised products that lend themselves well to precise and systematic classification. There is no direct Roman equivalent to the artistically central vase-painting of Ancient Greece, and few objects of outstanding artistic interest have survived, but there is a great deal of fine tableware, and very many small figures, often incorporated into oil lamps or similar objects, and often with religious or erotic themes. Roman burial customs varied over time and space, so vessels deposited as grave goods, the usual source of complete ancient pottery vessels, are not always abundant, though all Roman sites produce plenty of broken potsherds. ""Fine"" rather than luxury pottery is the main strength of Roman pottery, unlike Roman glass, which the elite often used alongside gold or silver tableware, and which could be extremely extravagant and expensive. It is clear from the quantities found that fine pottery was used very widely in both social and geographic terms. The more expensive pottery tended to use relief decoration, usually moulded, rather than colour, and often copied shapes and decoration from the more prestigious metalwork. Especially in the Eastern Empire, local traditions continued, hybridizing with Roman styles to varying extents. From the 3rd century the quality of fine pottery steadily declined, partly because of economic and political disturbances, and because glassware was replacing pottery for drinking cups (the rich had always preferred silver in any case).Fired clay or terracotta was also widely employed in the Roman period for architectural purposes, as structural bricks and tiles, and occasionally as architectural decoration, and for the manufacture of small statuettes and lamps. These are not normally classified under the heading ‘pottery’ by archaeologists, but the terracottas and lamps will be included in this article. Pottery is a key material in the dating and interpretation of archaeological sites from the Neolithic period onwards, and has been minutely studied by archaeologists for generations. In the Roman period, ceramics were produced and used in enormous quantities, and the literature on the subject, in numerous languages, is very extensive.