Britannia 33

Textile production was the only British industry mentioned in the Edict of Diocletian (AD 301) and has subsequently been assumed to have been the leading industry of the time. This paper re-examines this assumption in the light of relatively recent work and finds that it was indeed a major industry, though owing as much to indigenous technological developments as Roman influence.

Excavated structures and a large assemblage of lamps and moulds dated to just before the Boudiccan revolt are re-assessed and placed in the wider context of Roman Britain. Probably operating c. AD60--61, no kiln evidence was found. Iconography is also discussed.

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Excavation of a representative area in the north east of Insula IX which had originally been excavated in 1893.

Attributes authorship to Dee (1527--1608 and described as an Elizabethan magus, diplomat, scholar and traveller) and calls for him to be accorded a place in the foundation history of Roman epigraphy in Britain.

noting number of inscriptions involved and garrison changes.

Release of the OS map of Roman Britain in 2001 prompts analysis of what the extant evidence reveals.

Llandovery (Alabum) meaning `hollow depression' and St Asaph (Varis) meaning `at high places' -- both argued on the basis of philology.

Counters the argument of an earlier article (see 97/538) that King Street was the initial route of the Roman Conquest of north west England.

Three volumes are reviewed in the light of British archaeology's apparent concentration on the earlier Iron Age to Roman transition at the expense of Late Antiquity (the period covered here). The end of antiquity: archaeology, society and religion by J K Knight (1999, Tempus); The end of the Western Roman Empire: an archaeological investigation by E Swift (2000, Tempus) and The Later Roman Empire: an archaeology AD 150-600 by R Reece (1999, Tempus) are the monographs concerned.