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Oxford J Archaeol 23 (4)
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Oxford J Archaeol 23 (4)
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Oxford Journal of Archaeology
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23 (4)
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Journal
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Barry Cunliffe
Helena Hamerow
Nicholas Purcell
Andrew Sherratt
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Blackwell Publishing
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2004
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/ojoa/23/4
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24 Aug 2005
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Potted histories --; cremation, ceramics and social memory in early Rom...
Howard Williams
417 - 427
Archaeologists have identified the adoption of new forms of cremation ritual during the early Roman period in south-east Britain. Cremation may have been widely used by communities in the Iron Age, but the distinctive nature of these new rites was their frequent placing of the dead within, and associated with, ceramic vessels. The paper suggests an interpretation for the social meaning of these cremation burial rites that involved the burial of ashes with and within pots as a means of commemoration. In this light, the link between cremation and pottery in early Roman Britain can be seen as a means of promoting the selective remembering and forgetting of the dead.
Granaries and garrisons in Roman forts
Alan Richardson
429 - 442
A statistical investigation into the relationship between granary floor area and garrison in Roman forts suggested that for a year's corn an auxiliary infantry cohort was typically allotted 2,500 square feet of granary area, or 5 square feet each for 500 men. Cavalry fort granaries were insufficient for a year's corn but each cavalryman probably had 7.5 square feet of granary area which gave 3,600 square feet for 480 men. Information from Polybius suggested that legionary and auxiliary infantrymen had 16 cubic feet of corn per year, an auxiliary cavalryman 152 cubic feet and the legionary cavalryman 216 cubic feet. This paradigm facilitated the issue of corn by the modius and the granary model allowed ten modii per square foot of floor area so that the input for an infantryman was 50 modii per year. This allowed for a 4 per cent loss during storage so 48 modii per man could be withdrawn. But granary areas varied and some forts appear to have been depots for others. A simple algorithm is given to list the possible options for known granaries in terms of the numbers of men and duration of supply. With two floors, the Chester granaries would hold a year's corn for a legionary establishment, while the wooden granaries at Inchtuthil would have held a year's corn for some 6,800 infantry on one floor. The Severan base at South Shields could have held a year's corn for about 11,000 infantry. An addendum in Oxford J Archaeol 24 (1), 2005, p. ii, explains that the regression line in Figure 1 (page 433) should pass through the granary area axis at 0.157 a.q.; however the calculations and conclusions remain unaffected. Includes
Appendix 1: derivation of notional cohort values from fort pla...
440
Appendix 2: linear regression
441
Appendix 3: algorithm for granaries
441