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Record Nr.

UNINA9910477183803321

Autore

Jackson Robin (Robin Andrew)

Titolo

Ariconium, herefordshire : an iron age settlement and romano-british "small town". / / Robin Jackson; contributions from Hilary Cool; illustrated by Carolyn Hunt, Steve Rigby and Laura Templeton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England : , : Oxbow Books

Oakville, Connecticut : , : David Brown Book Co., , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

1-84217-935-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Disciplina

936.242

Soggetti

Romans - Great Britain - Antiquities

Iron age - England - Herefordshire

Great Britain History Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D Antiquities

Herefordshire (England) Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-220) and index.

Nota di contenuto

section 1. Background -- section 2. Archaeological investigations : summary and analysis -- section 3. Erosion and deposition history -- section 4. The finds and environmental evidence -- section 5. Archaeological synthesis -- section 6. Management, erosion and landuse -- section 7. Concluding remarks.

Sommario/riassunto

The Roman 'small town' of Ariconium in southern Herefordshire has long been known as an important iron production centre but has remained very poorly understood. The town is suggested to have developed from a late Iron Age Dobunnic tribal centre, which owed its evident status and wide range of contacts to control of the production and distribution of Forest of Dean iron. Rapid expansion during the second half of the 1st century AD indicates that the local population was able to articulate rapidly with the economic opportunities the Roman conquest brought. The town developed as a typical small