Cirencester and the Cotswolds: the Early Roman evolution of a town and rural landscape

Holbrook, Neil

doi:10.1017/s1047759400004517

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“…Closer to Cirencester, the presence of Late Iron Age activity at Kingshill and Stratton (Fig. 1, D, E; Wymark 2003; Biddulph and Welsh 2010) and the possibly Late Iron Age or early Roman barrows investigated by Peter Guest (Holbrook 2008a, 310; Fig. 1, F) may be interrelated elements of a wider complex.…”

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Beyond the Oppida: Polyfocal Complexes and Late Iron Age Societies in Southern Britain

Moore

2012

Oxford J Archaeology

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Summary Terms such as ‘oppida’ have often obscured how we understand the nature and role of the dyke complexes which emerged at the end of the Iron Age. Developing from recent research at the Late Iron Age complex of Bagendon in Gloucestershire, this paper argues that a group of such polyfocal complexes share common characteristics, most significantly a relationship with ‘banjo’ enclosures, as part of wider landscape constructs. The paper suggests that the topography and morphology of these complexes have important implications for understanding the role of these sites and the nature of social change in the Late Iron Age.

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Beyond the Oppida: Polyfocal Complexes and Late Iron Age Societies in Southern Britain

Moore

2012

Oxford J Archaeology

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“…At Camulodumum there was the Lexden tumulus dating to the late first century BC and a larger burial complex at Stanway, just west of Gosbecks, and dating from the late first century BC to around AD 60 (Crummy 1997: 22-4;Crummy et al 2007). At Verulamium there was a rich burial chamber, which lay uphill across the river Ver and dated to around the AD 40s-50s (Niblett 1999), and there were Iron Age burial mounds outside Cirencester in the Tarbarrow Field, in an area that also appears to have been used for Roman period burials and religious activity (O'Neil and Grinsell 1960;Holbrook 2008;Biddulph and Welsh 2011). The recent survey work at Silchester has also produced traces of what may have been elite burials associated with the oppidum, although as yet no excavation has taken place here, and more work is needed to confirm this.…”

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The Development of Towns

Rogers

2014

Oxford Handbooks Online

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This chapter examines urban foundation and development in the Roman period and the issues relating to town origins and purpose in Britain. It focuses on the chartered towns and reviews relating to the three main types of urban settlement—the coloniae, municipia and civitas-capitals—and the practice of settlement categorization. The chapter also contextualizes debate on urban development by discussing aspects of the history of approach to the documentation and interpretation of Roman town foundation in Britain. It discusses the practicalities of town construction and then moves on to emphasizing the need for Roman urban studies to embrace archaeological theory in order to avoid normative assumptions in interpreting urban material and town life. In particular it argues for greater recognition of the relationship between the development of urban spaces, the lived experience within towns, and the existing significance attached to places and landscapes in prehistory.

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“…post-Boudiccan period(Gascoyne and Radford 2013); 5) Carlisle and Bath, data from the Defended Small Towns of Roman Britain dataset (M Fulford et al 2018)(McWhirr 1986;Holbrook 1998). …”

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Estimating the ‘Missing’ Houses of Silchester

Ortman,

Hanson

2023

Britannia

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Estimating the numbers of residences, and thus the residential densities and populations, of ancient settlements remains a significant problem. This is true even for ‘greenfield’ sites due to the differential visibility of structures made of different materials in aerial and geophysical surveys. In this paper, we take advantage of statistical relationships among elements of the built environments of Roman cities in Britannia and more broadly across the Empire, to estimate the total number of buildings, total population and population density of Silchester. The results indicate that the current site plan dramatically under-represents these values. We also consider the implications of our results for broader discussions of urbanism in Britannia.

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Cirencester and the Cotswolds: the Early Roman evolution of a town and rural landscape

Cited by 6 publications

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Beyond the Oppida: Polyfocal Complexes and Late Iron Age Societies in Southern Britain

Beyond the Oppida: Polyfocal Complexes and Late Iron Age Societies in Southern Britain

The Development of Towns

Estimating the ‘Missing’ Houses of Silchester

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