Ariconium, Herefordshire : an Iron Age settlement and Romano-British 'small town'


Robin. Jackson
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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Cool, H. E. M (Contributor)
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Havertown : : Oxbow Books, , 2012.
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1 online resource (277 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - List of Figures; List of Tables; Contributors; Summary; Zusammenfassung; Résumé; Report structure and archive; Acknowledgements; 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; Bibliography; APPENDIX 1; APPENDIX 2; APPENDIX 3; APPENDIX 4; APPENDIX 5; APPENDIX 6; APPENDIX 7; APPENDIX 8; Index. - 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
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1842174495. - 9781842174494

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