Britain Archive
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Movie Review: Centurion
Posted on May 30, 2013 | No CommentsIt's 117. A.D. and the Roman Frontier is plagued by Picts. After a 20 year stalemate, the Roman legions have been given the order to break it by any means possible. -
1,700 year-old Roman cemetery discovered under another car park in Leicester
Posted on May 5, 2013 | No CommentsUniversity of Leicester Archaeological Services, the same group that discovered King Richard III under a car park in Leicester, has found a Roman cemetery in another car park in the same city. -
Posted on March 10, 2013 | No CommentsThis paper explores the writings of English, Scottish and Irish authors to address how these draw upon the geographical and conceptual spaces created through the medium of the two Roman Walls of Britain. -
Shepherds
Posted on March 10, 2013 | No CommentsThe presence of fossil echinoids in archaeological sites in southern England that range from the Palaeolithic through the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages, Romano-British to Anglo-Saxon indicates that humans have long had a propensity for collecting these fossils. -
A canon for the Bronze Age?
Posted on March 8, 2013 | No CommentsCatalogues and databases which are easily accessible to all interested parties regardless of their geographical location, occupation, background or purpose, provide a level playing field for research, publication and debate in the archaeology of the bronze age. The establishment of a canon of reliable, illustrated documentation of as many facets of the Bronze Age as are required, is a prerequisite to the future of our understanding of the Bronze Age. -
The Bronze Age climate and environment of Britain
Posted on March 7, 2013 | No CommentsTaking the major studies together it can be seen that there is a large degree of agreement in relation to the major trends. Indeed the noise which appears to be fairly equally if not normally, distributed over time is typical of that which might be expected due to differences in dating, different site sensitivity, and in regional variation. -
Prospects and potential in the archaeology of Bronze Age Britain
Posted on March 4, 2013 | No CommentsThis paper argues that although our discipline focuses increasingly on thematic research programmes, period-based approaches remain a valuable way of understanding the particularities of the social practices we study. Different aspects of the archaeological record - including settlement, burial, landscape and material culture - are examined in turn to identify a series of possible questions for future research. -
Information, Interaction and Society
Posted on February 25, 2013 | No CommentsThe use of data to analyse broader perspectives is not a straightforward process. Unpublished excavation reports, specialist reports, archaeological databases and theses comprise the -
Towards a fuller, more nuanced narrative of Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain 2500
Posted on February 25, 2013 | No CommentsThis contribution will focus mainly on the period 2500 -
Bronze Age pottery and settlements in southern England
Posted on February 24, 2013 | No CommentsWhat we need to do. Doctoral research involving artefact corpora appears to be unfashionable. However the compilation of such works for Food Vessels, accessory vessels and the Late Bronze Age styles is desperately needed; and the studies of Biconical Urns and MBA pottery (see above) need to be published.
