| Silchester: Changing Visions of a Roman Town: Integrating Geophysics and Archaeology: The Results of the Silchester Mapping Project 2005-10 Contributor(s): Creighton, John (Author), Fry, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0907764428 ISBN-13: 9780907764427 Publisher: Roman Society Publications OUR PRICE: $104.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology - History | Ancient - Rome - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Dewey: 936.227 |
| LCCN: 2016438011 |
| Series: Britannia Monographs |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 8.2" W x 11.6" (4.55 lbs) 448 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Italy - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume draws together for the first time all the fieldwork known to have taken place from the earliest located trenches in the 1720s up until the modern campaigns of Fulford. It integrates this work with a new geophysical survey of 217ha to provide a new overarching narrative for the town. The volume starts with a historiography of work on the city from earliest antiquarian investigations. This sense of changing interpretations of the site permeates all the later discussion, showing how new discoveries have transformed understandings. The core of the volume contains the empirical data, mapping the past excavations alongside evidence from aerial photography, fieldwalking, LiDAR and geophysics. The final sections provide essays in interpretation, with thematic reviews of: the defenses; the development of the oppidum; the military connection; the mortuary landscape; trade and industry; and pubic entertainment. Finally a narrative overview examines how the town's remains have been interpreted within an historical setting. |