BRITANNIA 29 1998

 

CONTENTS

 

ARTICLES

M. Atkinson and S.J. Preston:  The Late Iron Age and Roman Settlement at Elms Farm, Heybridge, Essex, Excavations 1993-5: an Interim Report, 85-110

P.J. Casey and B. Hoffmann:  Rescue Excavations in the Vicus of the Fort at Greta Bridge, Co. Durham, 1972-4, 111-83

Hugh E.H. Davies:  Designing Roman Roads, 1-16

J.F. Drinkwater:  The Usurpers Constantine III (407-411) and Jovinus (411-413), 269-98

Miranda J. Green:  God in Man's Image: Thoughts on the Genesis and Affiliations of some Romano-British Cult-Imagery, 17-30

David Longley, Neil Johnstone and Jeremy Evans:  Excavations on Two Farms of the Romano-British Period at Bryn Eryr and Bush Farm, Gwynedd    , 185-246

A.G. Marvell and D.J. Maynard:  Excavations South of the Legionary Fortress at Usk, Gwent, 1994, 247-67

R.S.O. Tomlin:  Roman Manuscripts from Carlisle: the Ink-Written Tablets, 31-84

 

NOTES

Anthony R. Birley:  A New Tombstone from Vindolanda, 299-306

E.W. Black:  How Many Rivers to Cross?, 306-7

Yvonne Boutwood:  Roman Road and Settlement, Long Bennington, Lincolnshire, 307-9

C.E.A. Cheesman:  Tincomarus Commi filius, 309-15

L. Dumayne-Peaty:  Forest Clearance in Northern Britain during Romano-British Times: Re-addressing the Palynological Evidence, 315-22

Peter Halkon: A Roman Relief Depicting Victory from Bolton, East Yorkshire, 322-5

Martin Henig and Alan Ross:  A Roman Intaglio Depicting a Warship from the Foreshore at King's Reach, Winchester Wharf, Southwark,         325-7

Peter D. Horne and Ian G. Lawton:  Buttercrambe Moor Roman Camp, Buttercrambe with Bossall, North Yorkshire, 327-9

Martin Locock:  The Goldcliff Stone and Roman Drainage on the Caldicot Level: an Evaluation at Hill Farm, Goldcliff, 1996, 329-36

J.C. Mann:  London as a Provincial Capital, 336-9

J.C. Mann:  The Creation of Four Provinces in Britain by Diocletian, 339-41

Robert A. Philpott:  New Evidence from Aerial Reconnaissance for Roman Military Sites in Cheshire, 341-53

Richard Pollard:  A Ceramic Cult Figure from Leicester, 353-6

M.P. Speidel:  The Risingham Praetensio, 356-9

David Stocker:  A Hitherto Unidentified Image of the Mithraic God Arimanius at Lincoln?, 359-63

 

ROMAN BRITAIN IN 1997

I Sites Explored, by B.C. Burnham, L.J.F. Keppie and A.S. Esmonde Cleary, 365-432

II Inscriptions, by M.W.C. Hassall and R.S.O. Tomlin, 433-45

 

REVIEW ARTICLES

Kevin Greene:  The Study of Roman Pottery in Britain in the Late 1990s: Progress and Prospects (reviews P. Tyers, Roman Pottery in Britain; P.V. Webster, Roman Samian Pottery in Britain: Background Notes; Journal of Roman Pottery Studies), 447-50

L.J.F. Keppie:  The Roman Inscriptions of Britain (reviews R.G. Collingwood and R.P. Wright, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain. i. Inscriptions on Stone. Addenda and Corrigenda (R.S.O. Tomlin); R.G. Collingwood and R.P. Wright, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain. ii. Instrumentum Domesticum, Fascs 7-8 (S.S. Frere and R.S.O. Tomlin); R.G. Collingwood and R.P. Wright, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain. ii. Instrumentum Domesticum. Combined Epigraphic Indexes and Concordance with Major Printed Sources (S.S. Frere)), 451-5

Colin Wells:  What's New Along the Lippe: Recent Work in North Germany (reviews W. Schlüter, Kalkriese -- Römer im Osnabrücker Land; J.S. Kühlborn, Germaniam pacavi --Germanien habe ich befriedet: Archäologische Stätten augusteischer Okkupation; R. Wiegels and W. Woesler, Arminius und die Varusschlacht: Geschichte--Mythos--Literatur; B.P.M. Rudnick, Die verzierte Arretina aus Oberaden und Haltern; F. Berger, Kalkriese I: Die römischen Fundmünzen), 457-64

 

REVIEWS

Alcock, J., Life in Roman Britain (by Janet Huskinson), 465

Betts, I.M., Black, E.W., and Gower, J.L., A Corpus of Relief Patterned Tiles in Roman Britain (by Alan D. McWhirr), 466

Bidwell, P., and Speak, S., Excavations at South Shields Roman Fort I (by B. Hoffmann), 466-7

Braund, D., Ruling Roman Britain: Kings, Queens, Governors and Emperors from Julius Caesar to Agricola (by Barbara Levick), 467-8

Breeze, D.J., Roman Scotland: Frontier Country (by Fraser Hunter), 468-9

Crow, J., English Heritage Book of Housesteads (by Valerie A. Maxfield), 469-70

Dark, K.R., (ed.), External Contacts and the Economy of Late Roman Britain (by Richard Reece), 471-2

Dark, K.R. and P., The Landscape of Roman Britain (by Richard Hingley), 472-3

Darvill, T., and Gerrard, C., Cirencester: Town and Landscape. An Urban Archaeological Assessment (by Sally Stow), 473-4

Elton, H., Frontiers of the Roman Empire (by D.J. Woolliscroft), 474-6

Funari, P.P.A., Dressel 20 Inscriptions from Britain and the Consumption of Spanish Olive Oil: With a Catalogue of Stamps (by A.P. Fitzpatrick), 476-7

Goguey, R., and Reddé, M., Le Camp légionnaire de Mirebeau (by Gordon S. Maxwell), 477-8

Hanel, N., Vetera I. Die Funde aus den römischen Lagern auf dem Fürstenberg bei Xanten (by Michael Gechter), 478-80

Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site Management Plan (by James Crow), 480-1

Hughes, G., The Excavation of a Late Prehistoric and Romano-British Settlement at Thornwell Farm, Chepstow, Gwent, 1992 (by Peter Webster), 482

Johns, C., The Jewellery of Roman Britain (by H.E.M. Cool), 482-3

Johnson, P., and Haynes, I., Architecture in Roman Britain (by Hazel Dodge), 483-4

Jones, M.E., The End of Roman Britain (by Richard Reece), 471-2

Mann, J.C., Britain and the Roman Empire (by Margaret M. Roxan), 484-5

Marvell, A.G., and Owen-John, H.S., Leucarum. Excavations at the Roman Auxiliary Fort at Loughor, West Glamorgan 1982-84 and 1987-88 (by W.H. Manning), 485-6

May, J., Dragonby. Report on Excavations at an Iron Age and Romano-British Settlement in North Lincolnshire (by Margaret J. Darling), 486-8

Milne, G., English Heritage Book of Roman London (by Thomas  F.C. Blagg), 488-9

Neal, D.S., Excavations on the Roman Villa at Beadlam, Yorkshire (by E.W. Black), 489-90

Raferty, B., Megaw, V., and Rigby, V., (eds), Sites and Sights of the Iron Age: Essays on Fieldwork and Museum Research presented to Ian Mathieson Stead (by Ian Ralston), 490-1

Watts, L., and Leach, P., Henley Wood, Temples and Cemetery, Excavations 1962-69, by the Late Ernest Greenfield and Others (by David Rudling), 491-2

Williams, D., The Reach of Rome (by D.J. Woolliscroft), 474-6

Williams, R.J., Hart, P.J., and Williams, A.T.L., Wavendon Gate. A Late Iron Age and Roman Settlement in Milton Keynes (by Rosalind Niblett), 493-5