The Vindolanda Writing-Tablets (<i>Tabulae Vindolandenses</i> IV, Part 1)

Bowman, Alan K.; Thomas, J. David; Tomlin, R. S. O.

doi:10.1017/s0068113x10000176

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“…From the outset these communities were closely tied to the military both socially and economically, and during the late first and second centuries there is little sense that they developed extensive ties with the wider rural populace and so failed to legitimize Roman urban life as a discourse. Some sense of this may be seen in the use of a centurio regionarius noted in the Vindolanda tablets, who was probably based at Carlisle to administer the region during or before AD 105 (McCarthy ; Bowman and Thomas , 221). If this arrangement was a long‐lasting one it suggests that governance of the region and Carlisle's authoritative status lay firmly in the hands of the military community.…”

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confidence: 99%

Roman Urbanism: A View from the Countryside

Taylor

2013

Oxford J Archaeology

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Summary The towns of Roman Britain have been subject to a long tradition of empirical research and discussion, but far less attention has been paid to the landscape context in which they developed. This paper considers the implications of this caveat for our understanding of Roman urbanism and suggests that most previous approaches have internalized the study of towns as social institutions and have failed to give due weight to the role of local rural agency in influencing the character of urban development. In so doing, it is suggested that the potential role of other important and competing nodes of economic, political and religious life, such as forts, fortresses, vici and small towns as well as rural sanctuaries and other settlements, is also not given due consideration in discussing the distinctive character of urbanism in Roman Britain.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Roman Urbanism: A View from the Countryside

Taylor

2013

Oxford J Archaeology

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“…Reference to beer, including on‐site production, is relatively regularly found on the writing tablets. From period II there is a reference to a ‘maltster’ (Bowman and Thomas , 102, Tablet 646). On Tablet 628, found on the bonfire site of period III ( c .…”

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confidence: 99%

Bring Me Three Large Beers: Wooden Tankards at Roman Vindolanda

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Horn²

2017

Oxford J Archaeology

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Summary This paper presents, and places in context, two tankard staves and part of a lathe‐turned tankard base, all made from yew wood (Taxus baccata), identified as part of a review of over 1500 wooden small finds from the Roman fort of Vindolanda. These were originally part of large, skilfully produced, communal drinking vessels of a type that has recently been the subject of a major review. Wooden tankards of this type are currently considered to be at their earliest a Late Iron Age phenomenon but one which extends well into the Roman period and which has, so far, been recognized predominantly within Britain. The three elements, found at Vindolanda, must have derived from three separate vessels and come from different periods within the site. This paper explores, adds to and amplifies current thinking on the construction, use and discard of these vessels and, in particular, considers how the tankards were perceived within the context of a Roman fort.

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“…Filey: Ottaway (2001). Vindolanda: Bowman and Thomas (1994). 129 I prefer the notion of feasting as a mechanism for elite consolidation (Roskams (1996b) 284), rather than the run-down self sufficiency of the published account: Rackham (1995).…”

Section: Bones In the Yorkshire Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%