The Romano British Villa And Anglo Saxon Cemetery At Eccles Kent

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This volume presents a study of the central and lower Medway valley during the 1st millennium AD, focussing on the 1962–1976 excavation of the Eccles Roman villa and Anglo-Saxon cemetery directed by Alex Detsicas. The author gives an account of the long history of the villa, and a reassessment of the architectural evidence which Detsicas presented.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Nick Stoodley
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release : 2021-11-11
File : 276 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781789695885


Villas Sanctuaries And Settlement In The Romano British Countryside

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This volume 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.

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Genre : History
Author : Martin Henig
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release : 2023-03-02
File : 385 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781803273815


Magnus Maximus

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An examination of Magnus Maximus's life indicates that the Roman order survived in Britain for far longer than is usually credited, both politically and to a large extent materially.

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Genre : History
Author : Maxwell Craven
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Release : 2023-03-15
File : 568 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781398111370


The Romano British Villa And Anglo Saxon Cemetery At Eccles Kent

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The Romano-British Villa and Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Eccles, Kentpresents a study of the central and lower Medway valley during the 1st millennium AD. It takes as its focus the Eccles Roman villa and Anglo-Saxon cemetery, excavated between 1962-1976 and directed by Alec Detsicas. An account of this important villa throughout its long history is outlined, and a re-assessment of the architectural evidence which Detsicas presented, with fresh interpretations, is provided. In the middle of the 7th century, a large Anglo-Saxon cemetery was established south of the villa. It started as a typical 'Final Phase' cemetery but continued into the late Saxon period. The evidence from the cemetery is presented as a site report, with a burial catalogue, a discussion of the grave goods and a study of the wider aspects of mortuary practice. The monograph also includes a chapter on some fragmentary Iron Age evidence and a discussion of an Anglo-Saxon timber building and its relationship to the cemetery. The evidence from the villa and Anglo-Saxon cemetery is discussed within the context of the Medway valley, which highlights the important contribution that Eccles makes to archaeological knowledge. The significance of the area is further investigated by studies devoted to the pre-English place-names of the valley and the documentary evidence of the area during the Anglo-Saxon period. The volume concludes with a general discussion, which draws together all the strands of evidence and evaluates the significance of the Medway valley during the 1st millennium AD.

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Author : Nick Stoodley
Publisher : Archaeopress Archaeology
Release : 2021-09-02
File : Pages
ISBN-13 : 1789695872


Burial And Memorial In Late Antiquity

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Burial and Memorial explores funerary and commemorative archaeology, A.D. 284–650, across the late antique world. This first volume includes an overview of research, and papers exploring bioarchaeology, mortuary rituals, mausolea, and funerary landscapes. It considers the sacralisation of tombs, the movements of relics, and the political significance of cemeteries. The nature and fate of statue monuments is explored, as memorials to individuals. Authors also compare the destruction or preservation of tombs in relation to other buildings. Finally, the city itself is considered as a place of collective memory, where meanings were long maintained, via a study of spoliation.

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Genre : History
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Publisher : BRILL
Release : 2024-11-20
File : 554 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789004687981


Archaeologies Of Remembrance

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How did past communities and individuals remember through social and ritual practices? How important were mortuary practices in processes of remembering and forgetting the past? This innovative new research work focuses upon identifying strategies of remembrance. Evidence can be found in a range of archaeological remains including the adornment and alteration of the body in life and death, the production, exchange, consumption and destruction of material culture, the construction, use and reuse of monuments, and the social ordering of architectural space and the landscape. This book shows how in the past, as today, shared memories are important and defining aspects of social and ritual traditions, and the practical actions of dealing with and disposing of the dead can form a central focus for the definition of social memory.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Howard Williams
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release : 2012-12-06
File : 334 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781441992222


The Oxford Handbook Of Anglo Saxon Archaeology

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Written by a team of experts and presenting the results of the most up-to-date research, The Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology will both stimulate and support further investigation into a society poised at the interface between prehistory and history.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Helena Hamerow
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Release : 2011-03-31
File : 1110 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780199212149


The Roman Cemetery At Lankhills

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This book considers the cemetery uncovered outside the north gate of Venta Belgarum, Roman Winchester, and analyses in detail both the graves and their contents. There are detailed studies and important re-assessments of many categories of object, but it is the information about late Roman burial, religion, and society which is of special interest.

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Genre : History
Author : Giles Clarke
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release : 2021-12-30
File : 614 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781803270098


Early Medieval Rome And The Christian West

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This illustrated book is a coherently conceived collection of interdisciplinary essays by distinguished authors on the city of Rome and its contacts with western Christendom in the early Middle Ages (c. 500-1000 AD). The first part integrates historical, archaeological, numismatic and art historical approaches to studying the transition of the city of Rome from Antiquity to the Middle Ages and offers groundbreaking new analyses of selected sites and problems. Attention is given to the economic, social, religious and cultural history of the city. In the second part of the volume historical, archaeological, liturgical and palaeographical approaches address Rome's contacts and influence in Latin Christendom in this period, with particular regard to Rome's place within Italian politics and its cultural influence in Carolingian Francia and Anglo-Saxon England.

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Genre : History
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Publisher : BRILL
Release : 2021-10-01
File : 513 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789004473577


Later Roman Britain Routledge Revivals

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Later Roman Britain, first published in 1980, charts the end of Roman rule in Britain and gives an overall impression of the beginning of the so-called ‘Dark Ages’ of British history, the transitional period which saw the breakdown of Roman administration and the beginnings of Saxon settlement. Stephen Johnson traces the flourishing of Romano-British society and the pressures upon it which produced its eventual fragmentation, examining the province’s barbarian neighbours and the way the defence was organised against the many threats to its security. The final chapters, using mainly the findings of recent archaeology, assess the initial arrival of the Saxon settlers, and indicate the continuity of life between late Roman and early Saxon England. Later Roman Britain gives a fascinating glimpse of a period scarce with historical sources, but during which changes fundamental to the formation of modern Britain began to take place.

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Genre : History
Author : Stephen Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2014-03-18
File : 228 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317756286