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Considering “urban waterscapes” in Britain - ADAM ROGERS, WATER AND ROMAN URBANISM. TOWNS, WATERSCAPES, LAND TRANSFORMATION AND EXPERIENCE IN ROMAN BRITAIN (Mnemosyne Supplements vol. 355; Brill, Leiden 2013). Pp. xiii + 278, figs. 38. ISSN 8958-; ISBN 978-90-04-24787-1. $161. Also available as e-book.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 November 2014

Stephen Rippon*
Affiliation:
University of Exeter, s.j.rippon@ex.ac.uk

Abstract

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Copyright © Journal of Roman Archaeology L.L.C. 2014

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References

1 E.g., Stafford, E., Landscape and prehistory in the East London wetlands: investigations along the A13 DBFO roadscheme, Tower Hamlets, Newnham and Barking and Dagenham, 2000-2003 (Oxford 2012)Google Scholar; Bates, M. and Stafford, E., Thames Holocene: a geoarchaeological approach to the investigation of the river floodplain for High Speed 1, 1994-2003 (Oxford–Salisbury 2013)Google Scholar.

2 E.g., Meier, D., “From nature to culture: landscape and settlement history of the North Sea coast of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany,” in Thoen, E. et al. (edd.), Landscapes or seascapes? The history of the coastal environment in the North Sea area reconsidered (Gent 2013) 85110 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Rippon, S., The transformation of coastal wetlands: exploitation and management of marshland landscapes in North West Europe during the Roman and medieval periods (Oxford 2000) 7276 Google Scholar.

4 Crowson, A., Lane, T. and Reeve, J., Fenland Management Project excavations 1991-1995 (Sleaford 2000) 129–34Google Scholar.

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6 E.g., Banwell Moor, Kenn Moor and Puxton Church Field on the North Somerset Levels: see Rippon, S., “The Romano-British exploitation of coastal wetlands: survey and excavation on the North Somerset Levels, 1993-7,” Britannia 31 (2000) 69200 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; id., Landscape, community and colonisation: the North Somerset Levels during the 1st to 2nd millennia AD (York 2006).

7 The literature is summarised at Rippon (supra n.3) 84-90, which includes illustrations of the preserved remains and reconstructions of how they functioned.