The Rural Economy of Roman Britain New Visions of the Countryside of Roman Britain vol. 2 2

This second volume considers the rural economy of Roman Britain through the lenses of the principal occupations of agriculture and rural industry. It has two main concerns, the documentation of what is currently known of agricultural and industrial production in the countryside, and an exploration of the contribution that material culture can make to our understanding of how those resources moved across the province to feed and support military and civil populations and the development of towns and infrastructure between the mid-first century A.D. and the beginning of the fifth century A.D. At the same time, the classification and regional appraisal of rural settlement that is at the heart of Vol. 1: 'The rural settlement of Roman Britain', has enabled this study to provide a social context for rural production and consumption The mass of new data produced since the onset of developer-funded archaeology in 1990 has provided the basis for a new regional framework for the study of rural Roman Britain in which a rich characterisation has been developed of the mosaic of communities that inhabited the province and the way that they changed over time. Centre stage is the farmstead, rather than the villa, which has for so long dominated discourse in the study of Roman Britain; variations in farmstead type, building form and associated landscape context are all explored in order to breathe new life into our understanding of the Romano-British countryside. Cover Copyright Contents List of figures List of tables Preface Acknowledgements Summary Résumé Zusammenfassung 1. Introduction RB2chap2 RB2chap3 RB2chap4 RB2chap5 RB2chap6 RB2chap7 RB2chap8 364 RB2app 372 Bibliography 418 RB2indx