Isurium Brigantum

Dr Rose Ferraby is interested in the relationships we have with landscape. She works as an archaeologist, artist and cultural geologist, using these different approaches to explore and narrate sub-surface worlds. She is currently a Research Associate in the Faculty of Classics, at the University of Cambridge. As well as academic publications, Rose has worked on books of poetry and print, as well as writing and presenting for BBC Radio 3's 'The Essay'. Rose grew up on the edge of Aldborough, the Roman remains inspiring her future career. Professor Martin Millett is an archaeologist whose principal research interests lie in the social and economic archaeology of Italy and the western Roman Empire. He has published widely on this subject, and has led archaeological surveys and excavations in Britain, Spain, Portugal and Italy. He is currently Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and was previously Professor of Archaeology at Durham and Southampton universities. He has been the Director and the Treasurer of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and Vice-President of the British Academy.

• List of figuresPrefaceResumeZusammenfassungAcknowledgementsNotes on referencing and archivesChapter 1: IntroductionBackground to this studyGeographical settingHistorical backgroundPrevious inferences on urban originsTextual evidenceHistory of the townPrevious archaeological workOrganisation of this volumeChapter 2: Previous antiquarian and archaeological workKnowledge up to the mid eighteenth centuryThe later eighteenth centuryThe first half of the nineteenth centuryFrom the 1850s to the 1920sExcavations of the 1920s and 1930sThe 1940s to the 1980sThe 1990s onwardsChapter 3: The geophysical surveysIntroductionMethodologyPresentation of the resultsArea 1: North-western intra-mural areaArea 2: North-eastern intra-mural areaNote on terracing in the southern half of the townArea 3: Central intra-mural stripArea 4: South-western intra-mural areaArea 5: South-eastern intra-mural areaArea 6: South-eastern extra-mural areaArea 7: Eastern extra-mural areaArea 8: South-eastern extra-mural areaArea 9: Northern extra-mural areaArea 10: Northern extra-mural area beside the riverArea 11: The northern bridgeheadArea 12: The western extra-mural areaArea 13: The south-western extra-mural areaChapter 4: Re-evaluating the history of Isurium BrigantumThe Iron Age backgroundThe Roecliffe fortEarliest activity on the site of AldboroughTown planningThe forum and the establishment of the civitasThe Town WallThe character of the early to mid Roman townThe development of the extra-mural areasThe later Town Wall and annexesThe later Roman townscape The transition to the Middle AgesEpilogue: history, antiquarian development and landscapeAppendix 1: Gazetteer of archaeological interventionsAppendix 2: Concordance with RIBAppendix 3: Concordance with CSIRAppendix 4: Architectural stoneworkAppendix 5: Stone altarsNotesAbbreviations and bibliographyIndex

The importance of the results, the clarity of thought and expression, and quality of production should garner this volume a wide readership across specialists and non-specialists alike.