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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Powerpoints used in class (only available to KSHS students with a password)
Dates
for Roman Britain
STOP PRESS for Class Civ students at
KSHS: if KSHS Academic Portal is down (as it was on the weekend of 4/5 October
2008) and you cannot access the handouts/assignments and other notes posted
there, please email me on the address shown on the
Home Page with what you need and I will email you back the relevant sheets.
MESSAGE TO TEACHERS AT OTHER CENTRES:
feel free to email at the address shown on the Home Page if you have any questions or queries. My book Roman
Britain - A New History is now available in paperback from Amazon
for £9–47 (a bargain): many of the chapters deal directly with topics in the
CC7 course and with 285 illustrations is, I think, pretty good value. This is a
revised edition of the 2006 text, printed in 2010.
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 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
Wikipedia
on provincial government in Roman Britain
Tombstone
of Classicianus, procurator of Britain
(Inscriptions: LACTOR 4, Part
VI, 126–130, 135–139, 145 -146, 158 -160)
General:
Roman Britain Interactive
Map to find towns
Written
Evidence for Roman Towns in Britain (inscriptions, historical sources etc)
An
article on the small towns of Roman Britain
Sites:
Roman
London(Londinium)
Museum
of London mao of Roman Britain
St Albans -
the Verulamium Museum site (Verulamium)
Silchester
- current excavations (Calleva Atrebatum)
Wikipedia's page for
Silchester
Roman Caerwent
(Venta Silurum)
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
Colchester's
Roman Circus (chariot-racing stadium)
Roman
Exeter (Isca Dumniorum)
Roman Gloucester (Glevum)
Roman Lincoln (Lindum)
Roman York (Eboracum)
Wroxeter
Roman town (Viroconium)
MORE TO FOLLOW
4. Villas,
agriculture and the countryside
Bignor
Roman Villa – one of the most celebrated series of mosaics
Brading
Roman Villas (Isle of Wight)
Chedworth
Roman Villa – and the Wikipedia page on the
site
Dinnington
Roman VIlla – excavated by Time Team
Lockleys
Roman Villa – there is not a lot of online material on this site and you
should use your textbook and handouts
Lullingstone Roman
Villa – perhaps the most interesting of the lot thanks to its 2nd
century marble busts, and its 4th century Christian house church.
Look at the Youtube
Lullingstone Christian paintings
See also my page on this site: ROMAN VILLAS IN
BRITAIN
An
old book on Roman roads in Britain
(Inscriptions: LACTOR 4, Part VI, 165)
Best dealt with by using your textbook and class
resources
I have made two films on this subject, now
available on Youtube:
You might also want to watch these short films
about the Thetford
Treasure, the Mildenhall
Treasure, and the Hoxne
Treasure: all of these indicate the level of wealth available to some of
the Romano-British.
A. CLASSICAL
TEMPLES (by far and away the rarest group in
Roman Bath – start here to find out
more about the Temple of Sulis-Minerva
The
Temple of Claudius at Colchester – built after the invasion as the
centre-piece of the Imperial Cult, and rebuilt after the Boudican Revolt
B.
ROMANO-CELTIC TEMPLES
Romano-Celtic
temples – general principles
The Romano-Celtic temple
in Caerwent
C. MITHRAEA
(temples of Mithras)
Virtual tour of
the Mithraeum at Carrawburgh
D. CULTS IN ROMAN
Ashwell End - the cult of
Senuna ( a recently discovered cult of a Celtic goddess probably associated
with Minerva)
Bath - the cult of
Sulis-Minerva
Bewcastle
- the shrine of Cocidius
Video: Youtube Lullingstone
Christian paintings
Video: Hinton St
Mary Christ mosaic on Youtube
Finally,
The ‘Romanization’ of
Start with Romanization
– a British Museum Guide for A-Level students and my own page Romanization -
Obsolete?, and then perhaps read this book and decide for yourself: Imperial
Possession
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. HOWEVER, it is plain from OCR guide material that this is the bare
minimum: you should seek as wide a range of material as possible and you will
be rewarded for referring to your extra reading in the exam.
Mosaics
1. Personification of Winter on a
mosaic in the Chedworth
Roman Villa
2. The ‘Venus mosaic’ (another picture here) from the Rudston Villa
3. Mosaic from Hinton St Mary
(also here):
decorative scheme
Funerary monuments (tombstones
etc)
1. Tomb f Gaius Julius Alpinus
Classicianus, provincial procurator of
2. Tombstone
of Longinus,
cavalry sergeant, from Colchester
RIB 201
3.
4.
Villas
1. Fishbourne
Roman Villa (and a discussion here)
5. Lockleys Villa (Hertfordshire) (most
readily studied in your textbook)
Sculpture and other artefacts
1. Sculpted
relief of Venus bathing and attendant Nymphs from High Rochester
2. Head
of Mercury from the temple at Uley
3. ’Distance
slab’ from the Antonine Wall at Old Kilpatrick on the
4. The Traprain Treasure
5. Silver-gilt
pepper pot from the Hoxne Treasure
6. Statue base from
Caerwent, dedicated by the Council of the civitas Silurum (Lactor Part VI
no. 139)
7. Head of
the god Antenociticus
from the temple at Benwell
on Hadrian's
Wall
8. The god Cocidius:
silver plaque from Bewcastle fort on
9. The spirit of place
(left): votive plaques from York RIB 662-3: this is a reference to the silvered
bronze plaques dedicated by Demetrius to the ‘gods of the governor’s residence’
and Oceanus with Tethys – they are illustrated on p. 209 of Peter Salway’s The
Roman Era (OUP 2002).
Upper plaque (7.6 x
Lower plaque: ‘To Oceanus
and Tethys Demetrius (set this up).’
Apparently to be identified
with the Demetrius of Tarsus who was said by Plutarch to have recently returned
from a journey to
In Salway these items are
used as examples of the ‘spirit of place’ though there are far better examples,
and they seem to have been included in the specification simply because they
form one of the illustrations in one of the two textbooks from which images may
be drawn for the examinations.
10. Gilt
bronze head of cult statue of Minerva
from the
11. Male head
found at
12. Roundel showing
male from the pediment
of the temple of Sulis-Minerva at Bath
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13. Relief of the Genii Cucullati from Netherby
(
14. Female
head from Towcester
or see it in a Youtube
walk-round video
Maps/diagrams
2. Major
roads of Roman Britain (Hill and
3.
Administrative divisions of Roman
Britain (Hill and
4. Principal
towns of Roman Britain (Hill and
5. Building
types in towns (Hill and
6.
Comparative plans of types of Roman villas (Hill and
7. 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 (129)
135–139 (137,
138, 139)
145 -146, 158 -160, 165;
Part VII (Soldier and Civilian), 169–176 (173),190, 193–194,
196, 200, 203–205 (204),
208, 211–217;
Part VIII (Religion), 219, 221–222, 225–229, 234,
238–240, 246–253 (253) 260–271 271
Part IX (Writing Tablets), 276–277 (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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