New Distributed Titles Fall 2009 - Oxbow Books

Hadrian’s Wall
Archaeological Research
by English Heritage 1976–2000
edited by Tony Wilmott
From 1976 to 2000, English Heritage archaeologists undertook
excavation and other research on Hadrian’s Wall, firstly as rescue
excavation, later for research and management purposes. This
book begins with a brief account of these works, and this collection
of reports completes their publication. By far the largest part
of the frontier complex of Hadrian’s Wall is the earthworks; four
excavations have examined these features. New evidence for the
pre-Roman environment and the construction of these impressive works is described. Several of the milecastles
of Hadrian’s Wall were examined: new evidence for their structures, layout and internal histories has
emerged from this work. Large-scale excavations at the fort of Birdoswald in the 1980s produced dramatic
and important results. Further work in the later 1990s has confirmed some of these interpretations and
changed others, with evidence for a major rebuilding program in the late 2nd or early 3rd century. Finally,
an Appendix lists all English Heritage interventions on the Wall between 1976 and 2000.
320p, 436 col & b/w illus, paperback, 9781905624713, $80.00, English Heritage, October 2009.
The Land of Boudica
Prehistoric and Roman Norfolk
by John Davies
Modern Archaeology is showing Norfolk to be a distinct region of
national and international significance. This book traces the story
of this area from the Ice Age and the first appearance of people, to
the end of Roman Britain. The remarkable and continuing pace of
new finds, principally in the form of individual artifacts, as well as
through the more conventional processes of aerial photography
and fieldwork, has served to transform our understanding of the
county’s past in recent years. Evidence is sought for the ancestors
of Boudica, who responded to a series of changes and challenges, from very earliest prehistoric times
through to the early historical period under the Romans.
251p, paperback, 9781905223336, $39.95, Heritage Publications, October 2009.
Excavations Directed by J P Gillam at the Roman Fort of Haltonchesters,
1960–61
by J N Dore
This report presents the results of the excavations directed, in 1960 and 1961, by Mr J. P. Gillam within the
fort at Haltonchesters. The work was carried out in the area to the south of the B6318 Newcastle to Carlisle
road and to the west of the lane which runs from the B6318 to Halton village. Within this area lie the western
part of the central range of the fort, a section of the west wall of the fort (including the porta quintana),
the north end of the west half of the retentura and part of an annexe attached to the west side of the fort.
128p, 102 b/w illus, paperback, 9781842173602, $40.00, Oxbow Books, August 2009.
british archaeology
Roman Inscriptions of Britain
Volume III – Inscriptions on Stone (1955–2006)
by R S O Tomlin, the late R P Wright
and M W C Hassall
This volume is the long-promised continuation of Roman
Inscriptions of Britain I: Inscriptions on Stone (1965). All but
six of the 550 inscriptions included here were first published
under the heading ‘Roman Britain, Inscriptions,’ each
year from 1956 until 1969 in Journal of Roman Studies, and
then from 1970 until 2007 in Britannia. Wright alone was
responsible until the end of 1970, when he was joined by
Mark Hassall, the latter assuming responsibility for inscriptions
found south of the rivers Mersey and Humber. In 1975,
Roger Tomlin succeeded Wright in the north, and this geographical
division continued on the whole until Hassall’s
retirement in 2007. The entries in JRS and Britannia were
electronically scanned in 1993 and the whole series became
the basis of RIB III. In this volume, Tomlin presents
the inscriptions in geographical sequence, with individual
commentaries and accompanying drawings and photographs,
as well as reexamines many of the originals.
524p, hardback, 9781842173688, $140.00, Oxbow Books,
September 2009.
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