Rural Settlement in Roman Yorkshire

The Milton Rooms, Market Square, Malton YO17 7LX

Saturday 24th October 2015

Programme

9.30am Coffee and Registration

10am Dr Martyn Allen – Rural settlement across Roman Yorkshire: data syntheses from the Roman Rural Settlement project

10.30am Dr Clive Waddington – A neglected frontier: results from preliminary excavations on a high status settlement on the Brigantian-Roman frontier

11am Dr Peter Halkon – Roman impact on the landscape of the Foulness valley and the western escarpment of the Yorkshire Wolds

11.30am Professor Martin Millett - Across Wold and Vale: new evidence for the dynamics of Roman rural settlement

12-1.30 Lunch

1.30pm Dr Steve Sherlock – The Landscape of Cataractonium (Catterick) (tbc)

2pm Ian Roberts – The Other Side of the Vale: The Magnesian Limestone in the Later Iron Age and Roman Period 

2.30pm  Peter Denison-Edson – Romano-British settlement patterns in Swaledale: answers and questions, with particular reference to 4th-century material culture

3pm  Coffee

3.30pm Mike Haken and Hugh Toller – Lines in the landscape: Roman roads and rural settlement (tbc)

4pm  Nansi Rosenberg - The Aiskew Roman villa (tbc)

4.30pm Discussion