With contributions by Paul Bidwell, Stewart Bryant, Michael Fulford, Neil Holbrook, Mark Maltby, Patrick Ottaway, John Pearce, Dominic Perring, Mark Robinson and Roger M. Thomas.
This volume presents an assessment of the contribution that developer-funded archaeology has made to knowledge of the major towns of Roman Britain. It contains papers on the legislative and planning framework; cases studies (London and York); regional reviews (towns of the South-East, South-West and the Midlands and North); and thematic national reviews of funerary and burial evidence, faunal remains and plant evidence. The volume concludes with a review by Fulford of the overall contribution of development-led work to our understanding of Romano-British urbanism.
Author(s): Michael Fulford, Neil Holbrook (eds.)
Series: Britannia Monograph Series, 27
Publisher: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: XVI+216
City: London
List of Contributors vi
List of Figures vii
List of Tables xi
Summary xiii
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION / Neil Holbrook 1
CHAPTER 2. PLANNING, COMMERCIAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE STUDY OF ROMAN TOWNS IN ENGLAND / Stewart Bryant and Roger M. Thomas 7
CHAPTER 3. RECENT ADVANCES IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF ROMAN LONDON / Dominic Perring 20
CHAPTER 4. COMMERCIAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE STUDY OF ROMAN YORK 1990–2013 / Patrick Ottaway 44
CHAPTER 5. THE TOWNS OF SOUTH-EAST ENGLAND / Michael Fulford 59
CHAPTER 6. THE TOWNS OF SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND / Neil Holbrook 90
CHAPTER 7. THE TOWNS OF THE MIDLANDS AND THE NORTH / Paul Bidwell 117
CHAPTER 8. URBAN EXITS: COMMERCIAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE STUDY OF DEATH RITUALS AND THE DEAD IN THE TOWNS OF ROMAN BRITAIN / John Pearce 138
CHAPTER 9. THE PLACE OF DEVELOPER-FUNDED ARCHAEOBOTANY IN ELUCIDATING THE FOOD SUPPLY OF THE TOWNS OF ROMAN BRITAIN / Mark Robinson 167
CHAPTER 10. COMMERCIAL ARCHAEOLOGY, ZOOARCHAEOLOGY AND THE STUDY OF ROMANO-BRITISH TOWNS / Mark Maltby 175
CHAPTER 11. RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT: ADVANCEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE, METHODOLOGIES AND PUBLICATION / Michael Fulford 194
Index 213
