With contributions by D. Allen, J. Bird, M. Bird, G. C. Boont, M. Corney, C. L. Cram, B. Dickinson, J. Firth, A Grant, S. Hamilton-Dyer, M. W. C. Hassall, M. K. Jones, M. Keith-Lucas, P. Northover, N. Palk, J. P. Wild, J. Price, D. Richards, D. Serjeantson, V. Straker, N. Sunter, D. E. Williams and J. Wooders.
The third volume in the Society's series on the excavations of this late Iron Age and Roman site. Excavations on the site of the forum-basilica of the civitas capital at Calleva Atrebatum have produced the first substantial evidence of the layout and character of the late Iron Age oppidum. In addition to the structural evidence, major assemblages of late Iron Age coins, ceramics, metalwork, faunal and other environmental data are reported on.
Author(s): Michael Fulford, Jane Timby
Series: Britannia Monograph Series, 15
Publisher: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 656
City: London
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Preface
PART I: THE EXCAVATIONS
1. Introduction
2. Pre-Roman Occupation: Periods 1-3
3. Period 4: Roman Calleva: Pre-Flavian Courtyard Building
4. Period 5: The Flavian Timber Basilica
5. Period 6: The Masonry Forum-Basilica
6. Period 7: Late Roman Occupation of the Basilica
7. Period 8: Robbing of Basilica
8. Period 9: The Victorian Excavations
9. Period 10: Modern Ploughsoil
PART II: THE BUILDING MATERIALS
II.1 The Stone
Architectural Stonework
Decorative Elements
II.2 The Wall-Plaster
II.3 The Ceramic Tile
II.4 Foot-Impressed Tiles
II.5 Fired Clay
PART III: THE FINDS
III.1 The Coins
The Coin Catalogue
Schedule A
Schedule B: The British and Gaulish Coins from Silchester
Schedule C: The Pre-Flavian Coins from Silchester
III.2 The Pottery
III.3 The Glass
III.4 Beads and Other Objects
III.5 Objects of Copper Alloy and Iron
III.6 Objects of Lead
III.7 The Ironwork
III.8 Objects of Shale and Jet
III.9 Objects of Bone and Deer Antler
III.10 The Stone Artefacts
III.11 Objects of Fired Clay
PART IV: INDUSTRIAL WASTE/TECHNICAL ANALYSES
IV.l Metallurgical debris: catalogue and analysis
IV.2 Iron-working and Other Miscellaneous Metal-working Residues
IV.3 Petrological Analysis of the Roman Moulds
PART V: BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSES
V.1 Diet, Economy and Ritual Evidence from the Faunal Remains
V.2 The Fish Remains
V.3 The Bird Bones
V.4 The Human Bones
V.5 The Plant Remains
V.6 The Charcoal
V.7 Iron Age Pollen
V.8 The Rope
PART VI: RECONSTRUCTION
Observations on the Architectural Reconstruction of the Timber and Masonry Basilicas
PART VII: SYNTHESIS
The Oppidum - Latest Iron Age and Earliest Roman
The Pre-Fiavian Occupation
The Flavian Forum-Basilica
The Hadrianic Forum-Basilica
The Late Roman Occupation
APPENDICES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
