These essays have been written as a tribute from his friends and colleagues to Hugh Chapman, whose tragic death in 1992 took from London’s archaeology one of its most outstanding practitioners. Although Hugh’s interests and enthusiasms ranged over many fields, we decided that such a tribute should have as its core a theme central to much of his career as an archaeologist and museum curator, London during the centuries of Roman rule.
The papers here presented in his honour cover, as might be expected, a wide range of subjects, and we have attempted to group them thematically. They begin with accounts of early ideas about the Roman city and the first serious archaeological efforts to understand it, followed by discussions of the status and character of Londinium. These are succeeded by studies of sculpture and of some of the more humble objects used by its inhabitants, of their religion and burial customs, and of the countryside and settlements that sustained and
surrounded London; and the volume ends with past and present ideas on presenting Roman London to the modern public.
Author(s): Joanna Bird, Mark Hassall, Harvey Sheldon (eds.)
Series: Oxbow Monographs, 58
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Year: 1996
Language: English
Pages: 282
City: Oxford
Editors’ foreword vii
List of contributors viii
Hugh Chapman, Michael Robbins x
Bibliography of Hugh Chapman’s publications / Bernard Nurse xi
1. The temple of Diana / John Clark 1
2. The beginnings of archaeology in the City of London / Peter Marsden 11
3. London as a provincial capital / Mark Hassall 19
4. The status of Londinium / John Wilkes 27
5. Characterizing Roman London / Martin Millett 33
6. How to interpret Roman London? / Richard Reece 39
7. Monumental architecture in Roman London / T. F. C. Blagg 43
8. A palace disproved: reassessing the provincial governor’s presence in 1st-century London / Gustav Milne 49
9. The cemeteries of Roman London: a review / Jenny Hall 57
10. A miniature chalk head from the Thames at Battersea and the 'cult of the head' in Roman London / Jonathan Cotton 85
11. Sculptors from the west in Roman London / Martin Henig 97
12. The London hunter-god and his significance in the history of Londinium / Ralph Merrifield 105
13. Isis, not Cybele: a bone hairpin from London / Catherine Johns 115
14. Frogs from the Walbrook: a cult pot and its attribution / Joanna Bird 119
15. Petrecus connected: thirty years on / G. B. Dannell 129
16. The hare with three front legs: London to Toronto / Alison H. Easson 135
17. Late Iron Age and early Roman pottery traditions of the London region / Paul A. Tyers 139
18. Procuratorial mortarium stamps / Katharine F. Hartley 147
19. Problems of Roman coin interpretation in Greater London / Michael J. Hammerson 153
20. Early decorated Roman spoons from London / Christine E. E. Jones & David Sherlock 165
21. A new collyrium-stamp from Staines and some thoughts on eye medicine in Roman London and Britannia / Ralph Jackson 177
22. Roman material from London in the Pitt Rivers collection at Salisbury Museum / N. Griffiths 189
23. Dem dry bones / Clive Orton 199
24. A five-acre wood in Roman Kent / R. S. O. Tomlin 209
25. The London region in the Roman period / D. G. Bird 217
26. In search of Sulloniacis / Harvey Sheldon 233
27. Stony Jack’s Roman London / Jean Macdonald 243
28. The display of Roman London / Max Hebditch 253
Index / Lysbeth Merrifield 263
