| Other author/creator | Henig, Martin, editor. |
| Other author/creator | Soffe, Grahame, editor. |
| Other author/creator | Adcock, Kate, editor. |
| Other author/creator | King, Anthony, 1954- editor. |
| Other author/creator | British Museum, host institution. |
| Other author/creator | Association for Roman Archaeology, organizer. |
| Other author/creator | British Museum. Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory, organizer. |
| Other author/creator | Portable Antiquities Scheme (Great Britain), organizer. |
| Series |
Archaeopress Roman archaeology
Archaeopress Roman archaeology ; 95. ^A1265770
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| Contents |
Roman villas in Britain and beyond {u2013} Martin Henig, Anthony King and Grahame Soffe ; Where, when and what for? Coin use in the Romano-British countryside {u2013} Philippa Walton ; Villa mosaics and archaeology {u2013} Patricia Witts ; The Roman villas of the Lower Nene Valley and the Praetorium at Castor {u2013} Stephen G. Upex ; Piddington, Northamptonshire: wealthy private farm or imperial property? {u2013} Roy and Diana Friendship-Taylor ; Whitley Grange villa, Shropshire: a hunting lodge and its landscape {u2013} Roger White ; Moor Park, Hertfordshire: two evaluations of an excavation of the 1950s {u2013} Victoria Leitch and Martin Biddle ; Great Witcombe, Gloucestershire: a reinterpretation of the site as a temple rather than a villa {u2013} Bryn Walters and David Rider ; Chedworth, Gloucestershire: a question of interpretation {u2013} Bryn Walters and David Rider ; Acroterial decoration and cantharus fountains {u2013} Anthony Beeson ; The stones with Chi-Rho inscriptions at Chedworth {u2013} Stephen R. Cosh ; The St Laurence School villa, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire {u2013} Mark Corney ; Dinnington and Yarford: two villas in south and west Somerset {u2013} Anthony C. King, with a contribution by Christina Grande ; The Ashtead Roman villa and tileworks {u2013} David Bird ; Lullingstone Roman villa {u2013} Martin Henig and Grahame Soffe, with a contribution by Anthony King ; Clinging to Britannia's hemline: continuity and discontinuity in villa estates, boundaries and historic land use on the islands of Vectis and Tanatis {u2013} David Tomalin ; Where did Sidonius Apollinaris live? {u2013} John Collis ; From Roman villa to medieval village at the Mola di Monte Gelato, Lazio, Italy {u2013} Anthony C. King ; Index. |
| Abstract |
"Villas, Sanctuaries and Settlement in the Romano-British Countryside had its genesis in a conference held at the British Museum in 2009 and brings together a range of papers on buildings that have been categorised as 'villas', mainly in Roman Britain, from the Isle of Wight to Shropshire. It comprises the first such survey for almost half a century. While some of these structures were indeed country houses and the centres of agricultural estates as their designation as 'villas' implies, others are here shown to have been administrative or industrial centres, hunting lodges or religious sanctuaries, or a combination of more than one such function. The art associated with these prestige structures and its relevance to their function is also considered."-- Back cover. |
| General note | "The genesis of this volume was a conference held in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre at the British Museum, 13-14 June 2009, jointly organised by the Association for Roman Archaeology (ARA) and the British Museum's Departments of Prehistory and Europe, and Portable Antiquities and Treasure ... Most of the speakers who delivered papers at the conference are represented in this volume, with the exception of a small number who published their research elsewhere ... All the papers were fully revised in 2020/21."--Page xii. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781803273815 |
| Genre/form | Conference papers and proceedings. |
| Genre/form | Conference papers and proceedings. |
| ISBN | 9781803273808 |
| ISBN | 1803273801 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (e-Pdf) |
