Silchester: Changing Visions of a Roman Town: Integrating geophysics and archaeology: the results of the Silchester mapping project 2005-10 (Britannia Monographs)

This volume draws together for the first time all the fieldwork known to have taken place from the earliest located trenches in the 1720s up until the modern campaigns of Fulford. It integrates this work with a new geophysical survey of 217ha to provide a new overarching narrative for the town. The volume starts with a historiography of work on the city from earliest antiquarian investigations. This sense of changing interpretations of the site permeates all the later discussion, showing how new discoveries have transformed understandings. The core of the volume contains the empirical data, mapping the past excavations alongside evidence from aerial photography, fieldwalking, LiDAR and geophysics. The final sections provide essays in interpretation, with thematic reviews of: the defences; the development of the oppidum; the military connection; the mortuary landscape; trade and industry; and pubic entertainment. Finally a narrative overview examines how the town s remains have been interpreted within an historical setting." This volume draws together for the first time all the fieldwork known to have taken place from the earliest located trenches in the 1720s up until the modern campaigns of Fulford. It integrates this work with a new geophysical survey of 217ha to provide a new overarching narrative for the town. The volume starts with a historiography of work on the city from earliest antiquarian investigations. This sense of changing interpretations of the site permeates all the later discussion, showing how new discoveries have transformed understandings. The core of the volume contains the empirical data, mapping the past excavations alongside evidence from aerial photography, fieldwalking, LiDAR and geophysics. The final sections provide essays in interpretation, with thematic reviews of: the defenses; the development of the oppidum; the military connection; the mortuary landscape; trade and industry; and pubic entertainment. Finally a narrative overview examines how the town’s remains have been interpreted within an historical setting. 001-004_Chapter_1_Introduction 1 005-009_Chapter_2_Locating_Calleva 5 010-036_Chapter_3__Past_Fieldwork 10 037-047_Chapter_4__Methodology 37 048-156_Chapter_5__Mapping_the_interior 48 157-266_Chapter_6__Mapping_the_exterior 157 267-284_Chapter_7_Material_Evidence 267 285-301_Chapter_8_The_Town_Wall_and_Ditch 285 302-328_Chapter_9_The_Inner_and_Outer_Earthworks 302 329-338_Chapter_10_The_Linear_Earthworks 329 339-356_Chapter_11_Callevas_Origins 339 357-368_Chapter_12_Military_Involvement 357 369-387_Chapter_13_Cemeteries_and_Human_remains 369 388-405_Chapter_14_Urban_Infrastructure 388 406-423_Chapter_15_Trade_and_Industry 406 424-430_Chapter_16_Public_Entertainment 424 431-446_Chapter_17_Historical_and_Archaeol_narratives 431 447-448_Chapter_18_Concluding_Remarks 447 449-476_Bibliography 449 477-486_Index 477 Cover_slate_grey 487 Foldout_with_image_fit_to_page 488 i-xviii_Prelims 489 This volume draws together for the first time all the fieldwork known to have taken place at Silchester from the earliest located trenches in the 1720s up until the modern campaigns of Fulford. It integrates this work with a new geophysical survey of 217ha to provide a new overarching narrative for the town. The volume starts with a historiography of work on the city from the earliest antiquarian investigations. The core of the volume contains the empirical data, mapping the past excavations alongside evidence from aerial photography, fieldwalking, LiDAR and geophysics By John Creighton With Robert Fry. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.