Catuvellaunia and Rome: Economic and Political Relations during the Final Decades Pre-conquest

The Role of Grain from Southeastern Britain and Its Potential for Maintenance of the Roman Military along the Frontier on the Rhine

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This study brings together the numismatic, textual, and archaeological evidence required to discuss potential economic collaboration between the powerful Roman client-kingdom of Catuvellaunia in southeastern Britain and the growing Roman military presence in northern Gaul during the decades before the Claudian conquest of Britain in AD 43 and the inevitable full annexation of Catuvellaunia by Rome as Britannia, a strategic asset.The main theme of the study centres on the grain-wealth of intensively cultivated productive chalk-land in southern Britain and the potential for its ready export to fulfil the growing needs of the military in northern Gaul, a damaged war-zone already limited in its agricultural productivity, during the decades BC-AD.Context for the study is provided by a series of related case-studies:- discussion of climatic conditions, agrarian systems, and models of grain production-consumption set the basic agri-economic parameters;- the logistics and problems of managing land-based, riverine, and maritime supply-lines servicing the northwestern frontier are discussed, with added context on contemporary settlement and shipping;- the position of Camulodunon in the context of other oppida, of Greater Catuvellaunia within the tribal structures in southern Britain, and of its role as an agent of cross-Channel trade, located nearest to Gaul, reflect its wider controlling regional power;- evidence from Celtic coinage, stylistic and inscriptional, provide a major source for essential discussion of tribal structures and lineages;- questions of military supply are outlined in detailed case-studies of two developing near-contemporary frontier-zones: the Tayside Militarised Zone [Scotland], and the Rhine frontier;- political aspects of clientship and annexation by Rome across the wider Empire provide interesting parallels.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2026-03-19
Mått203 x 276 x 37 mm
Vikt2 110 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor518
FörlagArchaeopress
ISBN9781805832492

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ContentsPreliminary notes for readersKeynote evidenceSummarySection 1: Arable systemsCeltic fields: nature, distribution, and environmental backgroundExtensive arable blocs (EABs): a model for larger scale early agri-managementDivision of the land: linear boundaries, and their field-systemsThe agronomics of grain production during the Iron Age: a model-systemSection 2: Climatic considerationsSection 3: Hillforts from southern Britain: assessment of basic properties and distributionSection 4: Tribal lineage and interactionSection 5: Greater CatuvellauniaSection 6: Tribal emblems on Celtic coinage from southern BritainSection 7: Personal portraiture on Celtic coinage from southern BritainSection 8: Kingship: the evidence from Celtic coins in southern BritainSection 9: Militarism: changing projection: the evidence from Celtic coins in southern BritainSection 10: Camulodunum: capital and major port of the CatuvellauniSection 11: Oppida: BritainSection 12: Oppida: GaulSection 13: Roman grain-consumptionSection 14: Southeastern Britain: Continental imports to southern Britain during the final Iron AgeSection 15: Ships and boats of later Iron Age, and earlier Roman date: evidence from northwestern Europe, and the Atlantic seaboardSection 16: The northwestern coastal Atlantic: topography, navigation, and early resource-led voyagingSection 17: Resources: trade in metals as motivation for development of major sea-routes from the Mediterranean to the northwestern AtlanticSection 18: The Tayside Militarised Zone [TMZ]: logistics of bulk-supply to the Flavian salient in southeastern-coastal CaledoniaSection 19: The northern frontier-zone of Gaul along the Rhine: its initial development, and military requirementsSection 20: Grain-supply: problems and solutionsSection 21: Political considerationsSection 22: Cunobelinos: surviving the historical narrativeSection 23: Celtic coinage: Britain and Gaul: examplesSection 24: Literary sourcesSection 25: Bibliography