Pub Date : 2022-08-18DOI: 10.1017/S0068113X22000289
H. Cool
abstract This article draws attention to the fragments of two glass bottles found in auxiliary fort contexts of Antonine date in Britain which can be shown to have been made within the Flavian legionary fortress at Bonn. They are evidence of hitherto unsuspected aspects of legionary production and of supply within military establishments. They are also evidence of how long some artefacts could have remained in use. Reasons that might have prompted their manufacture are explored.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-17DOI: 10.1017/S0068113X22000290
E. Evans.
Abstract A recent paper in Britannia explored some of the potential factors which might have led to potters in the Silchester area continuing the production of flint-tempered pottery, already established in the Iron Age, into the start of the Roman period. This paper attempts to expand the discussion by considering the viewpoint of the potters’ customers and what they might have been looking for when purchasing their pots, with particular emphasis on the characteristics required of cookwares.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-30DOI: 10.1017/s0068113x22000010
T. Penn
{"title":"Glass of the Roman World. Edited by J. Bayley, I. Freestone and C. Jackson. Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2019. Pp. 232, illus. Price £35. isbn 9781789253399.","authors":"T. Penn","doi":"10.1017/s0068113x22000010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0068113x22000010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44906,"journal":{"name":"Britannia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48875394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-17DOI: 10.1017/S0068113X21000490
Anthony L. Beeson, M. Nichol, R. Massey
Abstract A Roman villa building at Mud Hole, Boxford, West Berkshire, was examined by excavation in 2017 and 2019, and found to be of probable fourth-century date. One room of this otherwise seemingly modest villa contained a remarkable late fourth-century figured mosaic, which features a number of rare mythological subjects not previously encountered in Britain. Inscriptions suggest the name of the villa owner (Caepio) and his wife (Fortunata), with a possible Spanish connection. The mosaic's central panel is ornamented with the triumphs of Pelops and Bellerophon, the former known only from two other mosaics, in Syria and Spain. The borders also contain depictions of stories unknown on other mosaics, but all concerned with aspects of triumph. The central panel is upheld by walking telamones (giants), otherwise only known on a mosaic from Tusculum, and the mosaicists have attempted to use foreshortening to give the floor a trompe l'oeil effect. The rare subjects depicted on the floor all relate to either Poseidon, Pelops, Bellerophon or Atlas, and suggest high standards of mythological knowledge and longevity of classical culture amongst the villa-owning inhabitants of late fourth-century Berkshire. The mosaic shows a connection to earlier depictions of the Pelops story, but is highly original in its interpretation of them and follows a contemporary trend, not previously encountered in Britain, of its subjects breaking out from their ornamental borders. The mosaic is an altogether exceptional discovery and can be considered an important example of late Roman art so far found in Britain.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-05DOI: 10.1017/s0068113x22000101
M. Stewart
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1017/S0068113X2200006X
K. Greene
.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-02DOI: 10.1017/S0068113X22000149
Bill Griffiths
{"title":"Hadrian's Wall: Creating Division. By M. Symonds. Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2021. Pp. xv + 213, illus. Price £19.99. isbn 9781350105348.","authors":"Bill Griffiths","doi":"10.1017/S0068113X22000149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X22000149","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44906,"journal":{"name":"Britannia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44776755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-02DOI: 10.1017/s0068113x22000150
P. Hughes
concluding chapter presents a chronological overview and discussion of key aspects of transition in the rural landscape over time. Indeed, such transition is not always evident; for example, the picture is one of continuity in some areas between late prehistory and the early Roman period, evidenced by the persistence of a series of rectilinear field systems and enclosures. The site made international news headlines in 2008 upon the discovery of brain tissue in a decapitated skull within an Early Iron Age ditch to the west of the site; waterlogged conditions enabled the survival of what may be the best-preserved ancient brain in the world. This decapitation was linked to the development of linear boundaries on the site, a process further evident in the Roman period. There is no real change on the site until significant landscape re-organisation just before the start of the third century A.D. Several ‘military’ finds may indicate army connections with the site at the time these changes were taking place; the site lies within walking distance of the fortress at York. An enclosed area of the site may have functioned as a ritual compound. In the late third century, a structure interpreted as a possible tower-tomb mausoleum was constructed along one side, founded on a 7 m by 5 m rectangular unmortared cobble base, which survived just below the ploughsoil. Reused stonework from the lining of one of the wells on the site, displaying evidence of the opus quadratum technique, may have been recycled from the dismantling of this monumental structure. Its function as a mausoleum is suggested by the presence of nearby inhumations displaying the unusual rite of large nails driven into the earth immediately adjacent to the skulls. The insertion of five Black Burnished Ware jars beside the hypocausted room of a nearby high-status, late third-century building with opus signinum floors is interpreted as further evidence for ritual activity of some kind. A quantity of ‘Anglian’ ceramics from a midden close to this ritual enclosure could suggest a focus of post-Roman activity on the site. This beautifully illustrated and very readable publication is further enhanced by being made freely available as an open-access digital publication and is produced in tandem with a digital archive available via the Archaeology Data Service, a publication model which is to be much applauded, facilitating ready access to the raw data and thus enabling future reuse and reinterpretation of the evidence.
{"title":"Beyond the Romans: Posthuman Perspectives in Roman Archaeology. Edited by Irene Selsvold and Lewis Webb. Oxbow, Oxford, 2020. Pp. 130. Price £40. isbn 9781789251364.","authors":"P. Hughes","doi":"10.1017/s0068113x22000150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0068113x22000150","url":null,"abstract":"concluding chapter presents a chronological overview and discussion of key aspects of transition in the rural landscape over time. Indeed, such transition is not always evident; for example, the picture is one of continuity in some areas between late prehistory and the early Roman period, evidenced by the persistence of a series of rectilinear field systems and enclosures. The site made international news headlines in 2008 upon the discovery of brain tissue in a decapitated skull within an Early Iron Age ditch to the west of the site; waterlogged conditions enabled the survival of what may be the best-preserved ancient brain in the world. This decapitation was linked to the development of linear boundaries on the site, a process further evident in the Roman period. There is no real change on the site until significant landscape re-organisation just before the start of the third century A.D. Several ‘military’ finds may indicate army connections with the site at the time these changes were taking place; the site lies within walking distance of the fortress at York. An enclosed area of the site may have functioned as a ritual compound. In the late third century, a structure interpreted as a possible tower-tomb mausoleum was constructed along one side, founded on a 7 m by 5 m rectangular unmortared cobble base, which survived just below the ploughsoil. Reused stonework from the lining of one of the wells on the site, displaying evidence of the opus quadratum technique, may have been recycled from the dismantling of this monumental structure. Its function as a mausoleum is suggested by the presence of nearby inhumations displaying the unusual rite of large nails driven into the earth immediately adjacent to the skulls. The insertion of five Black Burnished Ware jars beside the hypocausted room of a nearby high-status, late third-century building with opus signinum floors is interpreted as further evidence for ritual activity of some kind. A quantity of ‘Anglian’ ceramics from a midden close to this ritual enclosure could suggest a focus of post-Roman activity on the site. This beautifully illustrated and very readable publication is further enhanced by being made freely available as an open-access digital publication and is produced in tandem with a digital archive available via the Archaeology Data Service, a publication model which is to be much applauded, facilitating ready access to the raw data and thus enabling future reuse and reinterpretation of the evidence.","PeriodicalId":44906,"journal":{"name":"Britannia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46870977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-02DOI: 10.1017/s0068113x22000046
E. Cousins
Border
边界
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Pub Date : 2022-05-02DOI: 10.1017/S0068113X22000095
N. Hodgson
coinage
货币
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