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Roman Britain

Brooches in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain
by D. F. Mackreth
The result of forty years of study, this book offers an overview of the most common find, after coins, on sites in Roman Britain, the brooch. Used basically to hold outer clothing together, it was always on view and was usually decorative. Based on the study of 15,000 specimens, the second volume illustrates some 2,000, all drawn by the author.

The first chapter is a discussion of manufacturing techniques, methods of study and the ...
Hardback. Price US$140.00

Roman Mosaics of Britain Volume III: South-east Britain
by David S Neal and Stephen R Cosh
The third volume in this massive project to create the first complete corpus of the Roman mosaics of Britain covers the areas of Britain that were first to come under Roman control and where some of Britain's most impressive mosaics are to be found -- in Colchester, Silchester, London and Verulamium, and in villas and palaces at Brading, Bignor, Fishbourne and Rockbourne.

In their introduction to the volume, the authors trace the ...
Hardback. Price US$400.00

Ritual Landscapes of Roman South-East Britain
edited by David Rudling
Roman Britain was a multi-cultural mix of Celtic natives of different tribes and religions, of Romans with their own pantheon of deities, and of the soldiers and traders who brought their own practices and beliefs from all parts of Europe and North Africa and the East. This volume explores the way in which they practiced their religions in the relatively peaceful and prosperous areas of south eastern Britain, in towns and in the countryside, at ...
Paperback. Price US$49.95

Roman Manchester: The University of Manchester's Excavations within the Vicus 2001-5
by Richard A Gregory
As a consequence of extensive urban redevelopment, a series of large archaeological excavations were undertaken in the Castlefield area close to Manchester city centre, which uncovered important new evidence relating to Manchester's Roman military settlement. This monograph presents the findings of this significant phase of archaeological work, which unearthed evidence of Roman military, commercial and industrial activity, remains relating to ...

Roman Brooches in Britain: A Technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection
by Justine Bayley and Sarnia Butcher
This work presents the first major analysis of brooches from Roman sites in Britain since the pioneering work of M R Hull in the 1950s and 1960s and is the first to study the material using metallurgical analysis in addition to traditional typological methods. Starting with the 445 brooches recovered from Richborough, in Kent, excavated in 1922-38, the authors discovered that, contrary to the general assumption that all ancient copper alloy ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$80.00, Our Price US$64.00

Roman Mosaics of Britain Volume 1: Northern Britain This first volume of a four-volume corpus of Roman mosacis in Britain covers the north and east from Northants to Yorkshire and from Warwickshire to East Anglia. The book begins with a general introduction on mosaics and their construction and their workshop groups, and then proceeds to
Neal, David S.
This first volume of a four-volume corpus of Roman mosacis in Britain covers the north and east from Northants to Yorkshire and from Warwickshire to East Anglia. The book begins with a general introduction on mosaics and their construction and their workshop groups, and then proceeds to the catalogue, which includes every mosaic known, described by county and by site, with a description and an illustration - these are generally in colour and are ...
Hardback. Price US$350.00

Ariconium, Herefordshire: An Iron Age Settlement and Romano-British 'Small Town'
by Robin Jackson
The Roman 'small town' of Ariconium in southern Herefordshire has long been known as an important iron production centre but has remained very poorly understood. The town is suggested to have developed from a late Iron Age Dobunnic tribal centre, which owed its evident status and wide range of contacts to control of the production and distribution of Forest of Dean iron. Rapid expansion during the second half of the 1st century AD indicates that ...
Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Publisher's Price US$50.00, Our Price US$37.95

A Corridor through Time: The Archaeology of the A55 Anglesey Road Scheme
by Richard Cuttler, Andrew Davidson, and Gwilym Hughes
This volume describes the results of a series of archaeological excavations undertaken in advance of the construction of a new dual carriageway, some 32km long, across Anglesey, UK. Five main sites and a series of prehistoric burnt mounds are discussed. The route encountered remains of Neolithic pit groups and a possible Late Neolithic ring-ditch; Bronze Age and Iron Age settlement features and a Bronze Age cremation cemetery; Romano-British ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$70.00, Our Price US$52.95

Roman Mosaics of Britain, Volume IV: West Britain
by Stephen R. Cosh and David S. Neal
Volume IV: West Britain brings to a triumphant conclusion this monumental project to catalogue, describe and illustrate every Romano-British mosaic. The area covered by the fourth and final volume in the corpus is one of the richest regions of Britain in economic as well as architectural and artistic terms and this is reflected in the quantity and quality of the region's mosaics, which include the largest figured mosaic ever found in ...
Hardback. Price US$320.00

Raunds Area Survey: An archaeological study of the landscape of Raunds, Northamptonshire 1985-94
by S J Parry
The Raunds Area Survey forms part of the Raunds Area Project - a major programme of archaeological research into landscape development. With complementary biological and historical studies, it is based primarily upon the extensive open area excavations of early prehistoric ritual and burial monuments beside the River Nene, Iron Age and Roman settlement at Stanwick, and Saxon and medieval settlement in north Raunds and West Cotton, ...