Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Apéritif
- Chapter 2 The food itself
- Chapter 3 The packaging
- Chapter 4 The human remains
- Chapter 5 Written evidence
- Chapter 6 Kitchen and dining basics: techniques and utensils
- Chapter 7 The store cupboard
- Chapter 8 Staples
- Chapter 9 Meat
- Chapter 10 Dairy products
- Chapter 11 Poultry and eggs
- Chapter 12 Fish and shellfish
- Chapter 13 Game
- Chapter 14 Greengrocery
- Chapter 15 Drink
- Chapter 16 The end of independence
- Chapter 17 A brand-new province
- Chapter 18 Coming of age
- Chapter 19 A different world
- Chapter 20 Digestif
- Appendix: Data sources for tables
- References
- Index
Chapter 17 - A brand-new province
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Apéritif
- Chapter 2 The food itself
- Chapter 3 The packaging
- Chapter 4 The human remains
- Chapter 5 Written evidence
- Chapter 6 Kitchen and dining basics: techniques and utensils
- Chapter 7 The store cupboard
- Chapter 8 Staples
- Chapter 9 Meat
- Chapter 10 Dairy products
- Chapter 11 Poultry and eggs
- Chapter 12 Fish and shellfish
- Chapter 13 Game
- Chapter 14 Greengrocery
- Chapter 15 Drink
- Chapter 16 The end of independence
- Chapter 17 A brand-new province
- Chapter 18 Coming of age
- Chapter 19 A different world
- Chapter 20 Digestif
- Appendix: Data sources for tables
- References
- Index
Summary
INTRODUCTION
There can be no doubt that whatever influence the Roman state had in southern Britain before the Claudian conquest, it was only after it that the major impact of being formally part of the Roman world started to be seen. People and goods poured into the new province. Soldiers, administrators, traders and craftsmen arrived as did items that virtually no Briton would have seen before, such as glass vessels. New patterns of eating and drinking were introduced, but it would be wrong to see a simple Roman – native dichotomy developing. There was no more a single Roman way of doing things, any more than there was a single native way. In this chapter, five case studies relating to the first to second centuries are presented to show some of the patterns. They do not represent all of the ways of life being practised at this time, but they do give a taste of the diversity that emerges from the archaeological record.
SOLDIERS AND SETTLERS AT COLCHESTER
Colchester (fig. 17.1) provides a good place to start exploring practices introduced by the Roman forces. In the late Iron Age an important tribal centre existed there in the Sheepen – Gosbecks area, and it was the place where Claudius came to take official possession of the new province.
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- Eating and Drinking in Roman Britain , pp. 172 - 199Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006