The rural settlement of Roman Britain

PPG 16 (Planning Policy 16) was implemented in 1990. It embedded the principle of developers paying for the mitigation of any damage, or loss to the archaeological heritage, that might result from their proposals by means of preservation by record. It was superseded by PPS 5 (Planning Policy Statement 5) in 2010 (which in turn has been superseded by the National Planning Policy Framework).

As a consequence of PPG 16 a great deal of excavation has been carried out on the archaeology of Roman Britain, particularly on the rural settlement of England, but the majority of that work has not been published (the ‘grey literature’), but is archived in local authority Historic Environment Records. The aim of the Leverhulme project is to research both unpublished and published sources to write a new account of the rural settlement of Roman Britain. The results will be published on an interactive web-site in collaboration with the Archaeology Data Service, University of York and in a book-length study.

The project is a collaboration with Cotswold Archaeology with funding from English Heritage. It will run from April 2012 to September 2015.

April 14th Reading Conference: The Rural Settlement of Roman England: from regional perspectives to national synthesis

Download the PDFs of the powerpoints from the conference:

Tom Brindle - Material Culture Perspectives

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Martyn Allen - Agricultural Expansion & Specialisation in Roman Britain

Mike Fulford - 'Summing Up'

Newsletters

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Newsletter 3 - Jan 2014 (PDF 477KB)

Newsletter 2 - June 2013 (PDF 966KB)

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Seminar Presentations

Yorkshire seminar held in York on 15th October 2014

• Burials, shrines and ritual practices in the countryside: initial observations from Yorkshire
• Rural settlement and landscape in Yorkshire: a preliminary overview
• Coins, artefacts and social stratification in Roman Rural Yorkshire

South-West Regional seminar held in Exeter on 19th June 2014

• Coins & Artefacts at Rural Roman Sites (PDF 5.4MB)
• Roman Rural Settlement Project Presentation
• The exploitation of wild resources in the Roman South-West (PDF 3.5MB)

West Midlands project seminar held in Birmingham on 5^th March 2014

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• Roman Rural Settlement in West Midlands

South-East England project seminar held at Society of Antiquaries, London, on 30^th October 2013

• Roman small finds in the south-east

• Rural burial practices in the south-east
• Preliminary results

East of England project seminar held at Cambridge University in March 2013

• Approaches to environmental evidence (zooarchaeology): initial results from the east of England (PDF 1.3 MB)
• Coins and brooches in the East of England: preliminary results (PDF 4.9 MB)
• Preliminary results from the east of England (PDF 3.3 MB)

East Midlands project seminar held at University of Leicester in June 2013

• Preliminary results from the East Midlands (PDF 14MB)
• Agriculture and Animal Husbandry (PDF 3MB)
• Romano-British ritual practices in the East Midlands (PDF 2.4MB)

 

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Conferences

Roman Archaeology Conference, Reading, 28th-30th March 2014