Agriculture and industry in south-eastern Roman Britain /

The ancient counties surrounding the Weald in the southeastern corner of England have a strongly marked character of their own that has survived remarkably well in the face of ever-increasing population pressure. The area is, however, comparatively neglected in discussion of Roman Britain, where it...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bird, D. G. (David G.) (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • Michael Fulford and Martyn Allen: Introduction: population and the dynamics of change in Roman south-eastern England
  • Petra Dark: The environment of southern Roman Britain
  • David Bird: The countryside of the South-East in the Roman period
  • Paul Booth: Kent Roman rural settlement
  • David Rudling: Rural settlement in Roman Sussex
  • David Bird: Rural settlement in Roman Surrey
  • Gill Campbell: Market forces : a discussion of crop husbandry, horticulture and trade in plant resources in southern England
  • Chris Green: Querns and millstones in late Iron Age and Roman London and south-east England
  • Mark Maltby: The exploitation of animals and their contribution to urban food supply in Roman southern England
  • Edward Biddulph: The Roman salt industry in south-eastern Britain
  • Jackie Keily and Quita Mould: Leatherworking in south-eastern Britain in the Roman period
  • Nina Crummy: Working skeletal materials in south-eastern Roman Britain
  • Jeremy Hodgkinson: The development of iron production in the Roman Weald
  • Ian Scott: Ironwork and its production
  • Justine Bayley: Roman non-ferrous metalworking in southern Britain
  • Louise Rayner: Clay, water, fuel : an overview of pottery production in and around early Roman London
  • Ian Betts: The supply of tile to Roman London.