A Sacred Island

A Sacred Island
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Publisher : Exhibit A
Total Pages : 44
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ISBN-10 : 1906113149
ISBN-13 : 9781906113148
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis A Sacred Island by : Anthony King

Iron Age Coinage and Ritual Practices

Iron Age Coinage and Ritual Practices
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 424
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015060785147
ISBN-13 :
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Synopsis Iron Age Coinage and Ritual Practices by : Colin Haselgrove

Iron Age and Roman Coin Hoards in Britain

Iron Age and Roman Coin Hoards in Britain
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Publisher : Oxbow Books
Total Pages : 696
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ISBN-10 : 9781785708565
ISBN-13 : 1785708562
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Iron Age and Roman Coin Hoards in Britain by : Roger Bland

More coin hoards have been recorded from Roman Britain than from any other province of the Empire. This comprehensive and lavishly illustrated volume provides a survey of over 3260 hoards of Iron Age and Roman coins found in England and Wales with a detailed analysis and discussion. Theories of hoarding and deposition and examined, national and regional patterns in the landscape settings of coin hoards presented, together with an analysis of those hoards whose findspots were surveyed and of those hoards found in archaeological excavations. It also includes an unprecedented examination of the containers in which coin hoards were buried and the objects found with them. The patterns of hoarding in Britain from the late 2nd century BC to the 5th century AD are discussed. The volume also provides a survey of Britain in the 3rd century AD, as a peak of over 700 hoards are known from the period from AD 253–296. This has been a particular focus of the project which has been a collaborative research venture between the University of Leicester and the British Museum funded by the AHRC. The aim has been to understand the reasons behind the burial and non-recovery of these finds. A comprehensive online database (https://finds.org.uk/database) underpins the project, which also undertook a comprehensive GIS analysis of all the hoards and field surveys of a sample of them.

Coins and Power in Late Iron Age Britain

Coins and Power in Late Iron Age Britain
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 269
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ISBN-10 : 9781139431729
ISBN-13 : 1139431722
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Coins and Power in Late Iron Age Britain by : John Creighton

Cunobelin, Shakespeare's Cymbeline, ruled much of south-east Britain in the years before Claudius' legions arrived, creating the Roman province of Britannia. But what do we know of him and his rule, and that of competing dynasties in south-east Britain? This book examines the background to these, the first individuals in British history. It explores the way in which rulers bolstered their power through the use of imagery on coins, myths, language and material culture. After the visit of Caesar in 55 and 54 BC, the shadow of Rome played a fundamental role in this process. Combining the archaeological, literary and numismatic evidence, John Creighton paints a vivid picture of how people in late Iron Age Britain reacted to the changing world around them.

Iron Age and Roman Coin Hoards in Britain

Iron Age and Roman Coin Hoards in Britain
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Publisher : Oxbow Books
Total Pages : 384
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ISBN-10 : 9781785708589
ISBN-13 : 1785708589
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Iron Age and Roman Coin Hoards in Britain by : Roger Bland

More coin hoards have been recorded from Roman Britain than from any other province of the Empire. This comprehensive and lavishly illustrated volume provides a survey of over 3260 hoards of Iron Age and Roman coins found in England and Wales with a detailed analysis and discussion. Theories of hoarding and deposition and examined, national and regional patterns in the landscape settings of coin hoards presented, together with an analysis of those hoards whose findspots were surveyed and of those hoards found in archaeological excavations. It also includes an unprecedented examination of the containers in which coin hoards were buried and the objects found with them. The patterns of hoarding in Britain from the late 2nd century BC to the 5th century AD are discussed. The volume also provides a survey of Britain in the 3rd century AD, as a peak of over 700 hoards are known from the period from AD 253–296. This has been a particular focus of the project which has been a collaborative research venture between the University of Leicester and the British Museum funded by the AHRC. The aim has been to understand the reasons behind the burial and non-recovery of these finds. A comprehensive online database (https://finds.org.uk/database) underpins the project, which also undertook a comprehensive GIS analysis of all the hoards and field surveys of a sample of them.

Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces

Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 278
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ISBN-10 : 9780199237845
ISBN-13 : 0199237840
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces by : C. J. Howgego

Coins were the most deliberate of all symbols of public communal identities, yet the Roman historian will look in vain for any good introduction to, or systematic treatment of, the subject. Sixteen leading international scholars have sought to address this need by producing this authoritative collection of essays, which ranges over the whole Roman world from Britain to Egypt, from 200 BC to AD 300. The subject is approached through surveys of the broad geographical and chronological structure of the evidence, through chapters which focus on ways of expressing identity, and through regional studies which place the numismatic evidence in local context.

Celtic Coinage

Celtic Coinage
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Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015064804753
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Synopsis Celtic Coinage by : Philip de Jersey

The papers collected in this volume were, with a couple of exceptions, presented at a conference on Celtic coinage held at the Ashmolean Museum and the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford, on 6th - 7th December 2001. With seventeen speakers and an audience of ninety, this was by far the largest gathering devoted specifically to Celtic numismatics since the 1989 Oxford, and indeed must have been one of the largest meetings devoted to Celtic coinage ever to have taken place.

Beyond the Romans

Beyond the Romans
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Publisher : Oxbow Books
Total Pages : 410
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ISBN-10 : 9781789251371
ISBN-13 : 1789251370
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Beyond the Romans by : Irene Selsvold

This latest volume in the TRAC Themes in Theoretical Roman Archaeology series takes up posthuman theoretical perspectives to interpret Roman material culture. These perspectives provide novel and compelling ways of grappling with theoretical problems in Roman archaeology producing new knowledge and questions about the complex relationships and interactions between humans and non-humans in Roman culture and society. Posthumanism constitutes a multitude of theoretical positions characterised by common critiques of anthropocentrism and human exceptionalism. In part, they react to the dominance of the linguistic turn in humanistic sciences. These positions do not exclude “the human”, but instead stress the mutual relationship between matter and discourse. Moreover, they consider the agency of “non-humans”, e.g., animals, material culture, landscapes, climate, and ideas, their entanglement with humans, and the situated nature of research. Posthumanism has had substantial impacts in several fields (including critical studies, archaeology, feminist studies, even politics) but have not yet emerged in any fulsome way in Classical Studies and Classical Archaeology. This is the first volume on these themes in Roman Archaeology, aimed at providing valuable perspectives into Roman myth, art and material culture, displacing and complicating notions of human exceptionalism and individualist subjectivity. Contributions consider non-human agencies, particularly animal, material, environmental, and divine agencies, critiques of binary oppositions and gender roles, and the Anthropocene. Ultimately, the papers stress that humans and non-humans are entangled and imbricated in larger systems: we are all post-human.