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Rural Settlement in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain: a Review of Three Recent Archaeological Fieldwork Reports and their Wider Implications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2013

Adam Rogers*
Affiliation:
University of Leicesteracr16@leicester.ac.uk

Extract

All three well-produced reports, two excavation and one fieldwalking and magnetometry, deal with rural settlement in Iron Age and Roman Britain. They demonstrate the huge amount of information that can be gathered from such work with implications not only for our understanding of their local area but also many themes relevant to Iron Age and Roman Britain as a whole, as well as beyond. It is useful to review these reports not just in relation to the immense value that each site brings but also in terms of current knowledge and approaches taken to studying rural settlement.

Type
Review Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2013. Published by The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies 

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