CLASSICAL CIVILISATION
– FURTHER READING
AS Unit CC7 (F387) Roman Britain: life
in the outpost of the Empire
By Mr G. de la Bédoyère MA FSA FHA FRNS for KSHS
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UPDATES – 2009–10: this page is now
being routinely updated with links for A2 students.
Websites have been carefully chosen that have a lot
of basic information and details and/or pictures and plans about all prescribed
course material. Take care though – not all websites are necessarily 100%
reliable. Don’t be overwhelmed – more options are listed here than you will
ever need to chase up. But the point is it’s here and it’s available so it’s up
to you to make the most of it:
J indicates that there is a copy in KSHS Library
(reference only for the moment).
Unit CC7 (F387) Roman Britain: life in the outpost
of the Empire
This unit focuses on history, society, and values. It also covers,
archaeology, art, architecture, and religion. Students study how the presence
of the Romans in
Background:
The main sections:
2. Government
and Administration
4. Villas,
agriculture and the countryside
7. Art (sculpture, mosaics, wall-paintings, and pottery)
8. Religion
(including Roman, Celtic, imperial
cult and foreign cults)
Dateline of Roman
Britain (main events and
personalities)
Roman Britain Interactive
Map to find towns (or indeed any other site)
Wikipedia page on Roman Britain
Links on the main themes of the Course and other
relevant material
The British Iron Age
The Catuvellauni tribe
The Atrebates tribe
Roman
client kingdoms in Britain
Oppida – the large proto-town settlements of late Iron
Age
Pre-Roman Silchester – the excavations have revealed more
evidence for the development of a ‘proto-town’ before the Roman conquest.
The Welwyn
Grave
The Lexden Tumulus near
Leicestershire
hoard – this astonishing find of thousands of Iron Age coins was also
associated with a Roman cavalry helmet – is this evidence for someone with
links to the Roman world?
2. Government and Administration
Administration and
settlements
(Inscriptions: LACTOR 4,
Part VI, 126–130, 135–139, 145 -146, 158 -160)
Roman
Towns in Britain - an over-view to see comparative sizes
Roman Britain Interactive
Map to find towns
Written
Evidence for Roman Towns in Britain (inscriptions, historical sources etc)
Museum
of London - Roman London (Londinium)
St Albans -
the Verulamium Museum site (Verulamium)
Silchester - current excavations (Calleva
Atrebatum)
Wikipedia's
page for Silchester
Caistor-by-Norwich (Caistor-by-Norwich)
Cirencester, Britain's
2nd largest Roman town (Corinium Dobunnorum)
Wikipedia's page for Roman Colchester (Camulodunum)
Virtual tour
of Roman Colchester
Roman
Exeter (Isca Dumniorum)
Roman Gloucester (Glevum)
Roman Lincoln (Lindum)
Roman York (Eboracum)
Wroxeter Roman town (Viroconium)
An
article on the small towns of Roman Britain
MORE TO FOLLOW
4. Villas,
agriculture and the countryside
(Inscriptions: LACTOR 4, Part VI, 165)
CC7 Prescribed material:
You need to be familiar with all of this material. These are pictures
and other online sources covering every part of the prescribed material. The
inscriptions listed below are all available on the KSHS Academic Portal under
CC7 HO2.
Mosaics
Personification of Winter
on a mosaic in the Chedworth Roman Villa
The ‘Venus mosaic’ (another picture here) from the Rudston
Villa
Mosaic from Hinton St Mary
(also here):
decorative scheme
Funerary monuments (tombstones
etc)
Tomb
of Gaius Julius Alpinus Classicianus, provincial procurator of
Tombstone
of Longinus, cavalry sergeant, from Colchester
RIB 201
Villas
Fishbourne Roman Villa (and a discussion here)
Woodchester
Villa and its great mosaic
here
Lockleys Villa (Hertfordshire)
Sculpture and other artefacts
Sculpted relief
of Venus bathing and attendant Nymphs from High Rochester
Head
of Mercury from the temple at Uley
’Distance slab’ from the Antonine
Wall at Old Kilpatrick on the
Silver-gilt
pepper pot from the Hoxne Treasure
Statue base from Caerwent, dedicated by the Council of the civitas Silurum (Lactor Part VI no. 139)
Head of the god Antenociticus from the temple at Benwell
on Hadrian's
Wall
The god Cocidius:
silver plaque from Bewcastle fort on
The spirit of place: votive plaques
from York RIB 646–7?
Gilt bronze head of cult statue of Minerva
from the
Male head found at
Roundel showing male from the pediment
of the temple of
Relief
of the Genii Cucullati from Netherby (
Female head from Towcester
Maps/diagrams
A villa estate: possible division of
land use (see Hingley and Miles in Salway, P., Ed., 2002, The Roman Era, OUP.
Major roads of Roman Britain (Hill and
Ireland, figure 1)
Administrative divisions of Roman Britain (Hill
and
Principal towns of Roman Britain (Hill
and
Building types in towns (Hill and
Comparative plans of types of Roman
villas (Hill and
Distribution
of villas in Roman Britain (Hill and
Inscriptions
Dedication inscription
from the forum at Wroxeter (Lactor Part VI no.
138)
INSCRIPTIONS from LACTOR 4 (prescribed material)
Part VI (Government and Admin), 126–130, 135–139,
145 -146, 158 -160, 165;
Part VII (Soldier and Civilian), 169–176,190,
193–194, 196, 200, 203–205, 208, 211–217;
Part VIII (Religion), 219, 221–222, 225–229, 234,
238–240, 246–253, 260–271;
Part IX (Writing Tablets), 276–277
(Copy in KSHS Library, Room M6 and all the texts are scanned in
and available on the Academic Portal at CC7, HO2)
BOOKS and other sources
* indicates a book that may be
particularly useful
Gods and Goddesses of
Roman Britain
Dates in the history
of Roman Britain
J*De la Bédoyère, G. Roman Towns in Britain 2003, Tempus.
ISBN 0752429191
J*De la Bédoyère, G. Gods with Thunderbolts. Religion in Roman
Britain 2002, Tempus. ISBN
0752425188
$
J* De la Bédoyère, G. Roman Britain 2006,
J*Hill, S. and
J*
J Mattingly, D. 2006, An Imperial Possession.
J*Maxfield, V. A. and Dobson, B. (eds.) Inscriptions of
Roman Britain 1995 (and new edition 2006), London Association of Classical
Teachers (Lactor). ISBN 0903625237
J*Salway P
(ed.) The Roman Era 2002,
Birley, A. R. Tacitus’ Agricola and
De la Bédoyère, G. The
English Heritage Book of
De la Bédoyère, G. The
Buildings of Roman Britain 2001, Batsford. ISBN
0752419064
J De la Bédoyère, G. Architecture in Roman Britain 2002,
Shire Publications. ISBN 074780530X
Henig, W. Religion in Roman Britain 1995, Batsford. ISBN 0713460474
Morgan, J. Roman Britain 2.1 2004, J-PROGS www.j-progs.com
Ottaway, P. Roman York 2004, Tempus. ISBN
0752429167
Potter, T. and Johns, C. Roman
Britain 1992,
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