Using theoretical perspectives on technology and practice, and detailed typological study, this book explores society and economy amongst the working people of Roman London; a diverse population of locals, immigrants, specialists and amateurs.

*** Winner of the PROSE Award (2019) for Classics *** This major new work on Roman London brings together the many new discoveries of the last generation and provides a detailed overview of the city from before its foundation in the first century to the fifth century AD. Richard Hingley explores the archaeological and historical evidence for London under the Romans, assessing the city in the context of its province and the wider empire. He explores the multiple functions of Londinium over time, considering economy, industry, trade, status and urban infrastructure, but also looking at how power, status, gender and identity are reflected through the materiality of the terrain and waterscape of the evolving city. A particular focus of the book is the ritual and religious context in which these activities occurred. Hingley looks at how places within the developing urban landscape were inherited and considers how the history and meanings of Londinium built upon earlier associations from its recent and ancient past. As well as drawing together a much-needed synthesis of recent scholarship and material evidence, Hingley offers new perspectives that will inspire future debate and research for years to come. This volume not only provides an accessible introduction for undergraduate students and anyone interested in the ancient city of London, but also an essential account for more advanced students and scholars.

London's archaeology is as complex and varied as the city is today. These seventeen papers survey twenty-five years of London archaeology in the city and its environs from prehistory to 1800. Contents: Introduction ( H Sheldon and I Haynes ); Towards the development of a settled landscape in London c.

Drawing on both published and archived archaeological evidence, this copiously illustrated book revolutionises our understanding of early Roman London.

This is an immensely fascinating work, published originally in 1968, which is of great value in understanding London’s past. The immediate background to the excavations was the bombing of London during the Second World War, which led to the destruction of more than fifty of the three hundred and fifty or so acres that make up the walled city. The interval before rebuilding was a magnificent opportunity for archaeological excavation. The Royal Society of Antiquaries of London established the Roman and Mediaeval London Excavation Council to organise an extended programme which began in July 1947 and went on until 1962. This volume reports on the major series of excavations and deals in detail with Cripplegate, the Temple of Mithras and many mediaeval churches including St Bride’s, Fleet Street.

Roman London was Hugh Chapman's stamping ground and it is entirely fitting that his friends and colleagues should have chosen it the theme of this tribute to his memory: it is no surprise at all that there are many contributors. Contents: The Temple of Diana (G. Clark) ; The Beginnings of Arhcaeology in the City of London (P. Marsden) ; London as Provincial Capital (M. Hassall) ; the Status of Londinium (J. Wilkes) ; Characterizing Roman London (M. Millett); How to Interpret Roman London? (R. Reece); Monumental architecture (T. F. C. Blagg); A palace disproved: reassessing the provincial governor's presence (G. Milne); the cemeteries of Roman London (J. Hall); a miniature chalk head from the Thames and the 'cult of the head' (J. Cotton); sculptors from the west (M. Henig); the London hunter-god and his significance (R. Merrifield); Isis, not Cybele: a bone hairpin from London (C. Johns); frogs from the Walbrook: a cult and its attribution (J. Bird); Petrecus connected: thirty years on (G. B. Dannell); the hare with three legs (A. H. Easson); Iron Age and Roman pottery traditions (P. Tyers); Procuratorial mortarium stamps (K. F. Hartley); coin interpretation (M. J. Hammerson); decorated Roman spoons (C. E. E. Jones and D. Sherlock); a new collyrium stamp and some thoughts on eye-medicine (R. Jackson); Roman meterial from London in the Pitt-Rivers collection at Salisbury (N. Griffiths); Dem dry bones (C. Orton); a five-acre wood in Roman Kent (R. S. O. Tomlin); the London region in the Roman period (D. G. Bird); in search of Sulloniacis (H. Sheldon); Stony Jack's Roman London (J. Macdonald); Displaying Roman London (M. Hebditch). Michael Robbins contributes an appreciation of Hugh Chapman, and Bernard Nurse a bibliography of his publications.

Within the colonial history of the British Empire there are difficulties in reconstructing the lives of people that came from very different traditions of experience. The Archaeology of Roman Britain argues that a similar critical approach to the lives of people in Roman Britain needs to be developed, not only for the study of the local population but also those coming into Britain from elsewhere in the Empire who developed distinctive colonial lives. This critical, biographical approach can be extended and applied to places, structures, and things which developed in these provincial contexts as they were used and experienced over time. This book uniquely combines the study of all of these elements to access the character of Roman Britain and the lives, experiences, and identities of people living there through four centuries of occupation. Drawing on the concept of the biography and using it as an analytical tool, author Adam Rogers situates the archaeological material of Roman Britain within the within the political, geographical, and temporal context of the Roman Empire. This study will be of interest to scholars of Roman archaeology, as well as those working in biographical themes, issues of colonialism, identity, ancient history, and classics.

First Published in 2004.Precious little of Roman London survives and the destruction of Roman levels continues fast as new office foundations are sunk ever deeper into ancient levels. In recent years the close attention of the archaeologists of the Museum of London, encouraged by the cooperation of City developers, has allowed the detailed recording of much that is being lost. In just four years, from 1986 to 1989, work was started on about 200 archaeological sites in the City, and many others were dug in the neighbouring boroughs. Every year a mountain of new information and material is added to the stores of the Museum of London. The first purpose of this book is to bring together as much as possible of this new information, in the hope that it will allow progress to be assessed and new questions asked.

This book employs new archaeological and historical evidence to explain how and why Roman Britain became Anglo-Saxon England.