Isurium Brigantum

An Archaeological Survey of Roman Aldborough

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Modern-day Aldborough, in North Yorkshire, lies on the site of Isurium Brigantum, the former administrative capital of the Brigantes, one of the largest indigenous tribes of Roman Britain. Strategically located on Dere Street, by the second century AD it had become a key Roman town engaged with the supply of the northern frontier, with buildings and mosaics that reveal a thriving economy through to the fourth century. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the site of Isurium Brigantum was the subject of important antiquarian investigations. However, unlike some southern counterparts – for example, Calleva Atrebatum or Verulamium – in the twentieth century it attracted less archaeological attention until, in 2009, a team of archaeologists led by Dr Rose Ferraby and Professor Martin Millett began a major re-examination of the site. Large-scale geophysical surveys using both gradiometry and high-resolution ground-penetrating radar were conducted and these revealed most of the town and its surroundings, allowing its development from the second century AD to the medieval period to be mapped with great accuracy. Bringing together for the first time the results of large-scale geophysical surveys of Isurium Brigantum with a re-evaluation of earlier antiquarian study and more recent archaeological fieldwork and excavations – some never before published – providing provides historians and archaeologists with exciting new information about the topography of a key Roman town engaged with the supply of the northern frontier of Britain, and about its development and later landscape, together with a thorough review of the town in the broader context of Roman Britain and the western Empire.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-04-13
Mått210 x 270 x 20 mm
Vikt1 142 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieResearch Reports of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Antal sidor208
FörlagSociety of Antiquaries of London
ISBN9780854313013

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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