The Foundation of <scp>R</scp>oman <scp>L</scp>ondon: Examining the <scp>C</scp>laudian Fort Hypothesis

Wallace, Lacey

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“…There has long been a debate about the origins of Londinium , with some arguing in favour of its establishment around a fort of the invasion period, and others suggesting that it was a planned urban foundation. Most recently, Perring (2011, 2015) has pressed the case for a military origin, while Wallace (2014) has drawn together evidence that supports the planned-foundation model, and has carefully questioned the evidence Perring (2011) cites in favour of the military case (Wallace 2013). I still find the argument presented for even a short-lived invasion-period fort unconvincing, but irrespective of this, the now extensive excavated evidence from the AD 40s and 50s clearly shows that any initial military presence at London was marginal to the growth of the settlement prior to its destruction in the Boudiccan revolt of AD 60/61.…”

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Improving our understanding of Londinium

Millett¹

2016

Antiquity

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Our extensive knowledge of Roman London is the result of over four decades of large-scale excavation. In the UK, the establishment and growth of professional archaeology since the 1970s, coupled with the funding provided by property developers since 1990 (Fulford & Holbrook 2015), has transformed our understanding of both urban and rural sites—and nowhere more so than London. A combination of intensive building development in the City of London and the world-leading technical quality of many of the excavations means that Londinium is now probably both the most extensively and best-excavated major town of the Roman world. Knowledge generated by these excavations, however, has not always been made available through publications as it should have been. Although there is an important archive in which the records of past projects are curated, how and where to publish results has been a long-running problem, especially for the excavations of the 1970s and 1980s where post-excavation work was often not properly funded or supported. One major project to publish a synthesis of work on such sites in Southwark, south of the Thames, did result in a series of important volumes (Sidell et al. 2002; Cowan 2003; Hammer 2003; Yule 2005; Cowan et al. 2009), but a programme designed to provide systematic coverage of such projects in the City of London, to the north of the river (Maloney 1990; Perring & Roskams 1991; Williams 1993; Davis et al. 1994), failed to produce one of the five volumes promised—that concerning the archaeology of the key eastern hill. We also lack any up-to-date synthesis, a problem only partly compensated for by Dominic Perring's (1991) popular overview and Wallace's (2014) in-depth analysis of the evidence for the period down to the Boudiccan revolt in AD 60/61.

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Section: The Origins Of Londiniummentioning

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Improving our understanding of Londinium

Millett¹

2016

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“…Mattingly, 2006, 273e274;Perring, 2011, 252). Wallace (2013) recently revaluated the character of early London and refuted the argument for its planning by a central administration to provide supplies to the army. Instead she favoured the idea that London started as a port town where the traders had stronger ties to the trade networks and craftsmen of Gaul and Germany than to the British ones, and only in the post-Boudican period (i.e.…”

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Reconstructing the Roman London flavourscape: new insights into the exotic food plant trade using network and spatial analyses

Livarda

Orengo

2015

Journal of Archaeological Science

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a b s t r a c tUsing archaeobotanical data and examining them with a novel combination of density interpolation surfaces and social and spatial network analyses, this study has brought together exotic food plants in Roman London to outline the changing 'face' of its flavourscape, and contextualise it within the broader exotics commerce in Britannia. Consumption of a variety of exotics appeared to be widespread since the very first stages of London's establishment and their presence was maintained throughout although later on, as life in the town developed and its character changed, the focus of their distribution also changed. The emphasis shifted from the core of the city in its early days towards its outer zones, such as the upper Walbrook valley and Southwark in the Middle Roman, and the western and eastern sectors in the Late Roman phase. These changes appeared to largely reflect the changes in the overall commerce network of exotics in Britannia. In this network London starts as a mainly consumption place in the Early Roman phase to become the main redistribution centre in the Middle Roman and the necessary intermediate node in the transport system that had been established by the Late Roman phase, connecting the south to the north.

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Headhunting and amphitheatre combat in Roman London, England: new evidence from the Walbrook Valley

Redfern

Bonney

2014

Journal of Archaeological Science

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The Foundation of Roman London: Examining the Claudian Fort Hypothesis

Cited by 5 publications

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Improving our understanding of Londinium

Improving our understanding of Londinium

Reconstructing the Roman London flavourscape: new insights into the exotic food plant trade using network and spatial analyses

Headhunting and amphitheatre combat in Roman London, England: new evidence from the Walbrook Valley

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