Towns in Roman Britain

Julian Bennett has been active in archaeology since he was ten years old. After many years as a field archaeologist in England and north Germany, he took a BA in Archaeology at the University of Durham, and then his PhD at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne for research on the Hadrianic Frontier of Britain. In 1995 he was appointed to his current position as Instructor in Roman Archaeology at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

• The urbanisation of Britain; Public buildings and amenities; Housing and households; Wealth, commerce and industry; Religion and religious buildings; Urban society in Roman Britain; Change and transformation; Further reading; Sites and museums to visit; Roman names of some places mentioned in the text.