Romanitas: Essays on Roman Archaeology in Honour of Sheppard Frere on the Occasion of his Ninetieth Birthday - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1842172484 ISBN 13: 9781842172483

Publisher: Oxbow Books, 2006

Synopsis

This volume is a collection of essays to celebrate the 90th birthday of Sheppard Frere, formerly Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire at the University of Oxford. Most concern the archaeology of Roman Britain, which has been at the heart of Sheppard's research interests, and to which he has made such a distinguished contribution. The book covers such varied themes as early urban defences in Britain (Roger Wilson) , the status of London (Roger Tomlin) , the employment of civilian building-gangs on Hadrian's Wall (Michael Fulford) , iron weapons from Newstead (W H Manning) , military vici in Britain (Sebastian Sommer) , the terminology and use of samian cups (Geoffrey Dannell) , the text of a travel diary about the Antonine Wall in 1697 (Lawrence Keppie) , attitudes towards conserving Hadrian's Wall for posterity (Christopher Young) , and red-slip pottery from the Egyptian fort of Nag el-Hagar (Michael Mackensen) . The book is completed by a new Bibliography of Sheppard Frere's publications (compiled by Roger Goodburn and Sally Stow).

Table of Contents

Sheppard Sunderland Frere: An Appreciation
A bibliography of the published works of Sheppard Sunderland Frere (Roger Goodburn and Sally Stow)
Urban defences and civic status in early Roman Britain (R J A Wilson)
Was Roman London ever a colonia? The written evidence (R S O Tomlin)
Corvées and civitates (Michael Fulford)
The Roman fort at Newstead: The weapons and the garrisons (William Manning)
Military vici in Roman Britain revisited (C Sebastian Sommer)
Samian cups and their uses (Geoffrey B Dannell)
An anonymous traveller on the Antonine Wall in 1697 (Lawrence Keppie)
Hadrian's Wall: Conservation and archaeology through two centuries (C J Young)
Late Roman African red slip ware from the frontier region in the province of Thebaïs (Upper Egypt) (Michael Mackensen)
Index

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Review

Sheppard Freres impact on the study of Roman Britain is unquestionably immense.. this is reflected in the eclectic collection of papers compiled to mark his ninetieth birthday.' (Andrew Gardner Britannia, 39, 2008)

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxbow Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1842172484
• ISBN 13: 9781842172483
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Wilson R. J. A.