Life in the limes : studies of the people and objects of the Roman frontiers : presented to Lindsay Allason-Jones on the occasion of her birthday and retirement

Weitere Verfasser: Collins, Rob, 1977- , [HerausgeberIn]
McIntosh, Frances , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2014.
Umfang/Format: vi, 238 pages, 16 pages of color plates : illustrations, plans ; 29 cm.
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: Großbritannien
Inhalte/Bestandteile: 27 Datensätze
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: A wall for all / Rob Collins and Frances McIntosh
  • The Nature and function of Roman frontiers revisited / W.S. Hanson
  • The Roman army and the Roman smith: Some evidence from Britain / W.H. Manning
  • The accommodation of soldiers' wives in Roman fort barracks
  • on Hadrian's Wall and beyond / Nick Hodgson
  • If the shoe fits: Style and status in the assemblage of children's shoes from Vindolanda / Elizabeth M. Greene
  • A group of finds from outside the south-west gate of South Shields Roman fort / A.T. Croom with a contribution by M. Henig
  • The Roman names of the fort at South Shields and an altar to the Di Conservatores / Paul Bidwell
  • Commemorating the Wall: Roman sculpture and inscriptions from Hadrian's Wall / David Breeze
  • Monumentalising military service: Soldiers in Romano-British sculpture / Jon Coulston
  • The Corbridge Hoard revisited / M.C. Bishop
  • Characterising cult communities in the Roman provinces: Some observations on small finds evidence from the sanctuary of Liber Pater, Apulum / Ian Haynes
  • The Boston helmet: A preliminary account of a Parthian/Roman-era artefact at the Museum of Fine Arts / Simon James
  • A pipeclay pseudo-Venus figurine from Binchester Roman fort, County Durham / Iain Ferris
  • Notes on the Vindolanda 'calendar': Related artefacts and the purpose of the Vindolanda fragment / Alexander Meyer
  • A bead from Housesteads revisited / H. E. M. cool
  • Keeping watch: A key handle from Font-y-Gary, Vale of Glamorgan / Nina Crummy and Mark Lodwick
  • Art and society: Gems from northern Britain / Martin Henig
  • Personal possessions or traded goods? Finds of decorated mould-blown glass vessels on Flavian sites in Northern Britain / Jennifer Price
  • Stories from black bangles: Jewellry and other finds of jet-like materials in Roman Scotland / Fraser Hunter
  • Lost and Found: Casual loss and (re)discovery of Roman objects from the northern frontier / Rob Collins
  • Known unknowns: 'Invisible' people in temporary camps / Rebecca H. Jones
  • The rise and fall of the Housesteads amphitheatre / Tony Wilmott
  • The Wall's first great collection: The Clayton Collection / Frances McIntosh
  • An Etruscan mirror from the collection of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne / Andrew Parkin
  • 'Drive away the cloud of plague': A Greek amulet from Roman London / R. S. O. Tomlin
  • Putting some flesh on the bones: leather bikinis and body size / Carol van Driel-Murray
  • Tailpiece: Roman mice in art, allegory and actuality / Ralph Jackson
  • Lindsay Allason-Jones: A bibliography / Emma Morris.