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The Maryport Roman Settlement Project - Excavation 2013-14 (Paperback)
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The Maryport Roman Settlement Project - Excavation 2013-14 (Paperback)
Series: Lancaster Imprints, 27
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A research and community-training excavation took place over two
summer seasons in 2013-14 within the Roman extramural settlement at
Maryport, including the backplot. The primary aim of the project,
which attracted around 125 volunteers, was to enhance understanding
of the settlement through the excavation of a single building plot,
the first time this had been undertaken at Maryport in modern
times. Using geophysical survey evidence, a plot located 150 m
north-east of the fort, adjacent to the main Roman road, was
selected for investigation. The earliest feature was a small ditch,
possibly part of a late pre-Roman or early Roman field system, but
there was little evidence for activity before the late Hadrianic
period (c AD 130+), when a timber 'strip building' was constructed
on the street frontage. This went out of use in the mid-second
century, but was immediately replaced by a similar structure.
Following the demolition of this building around the end of the
century, the plot was seemingly abandoned for a time, after which a
stone-footed strip building was erected, probably c AD 220-30.
Although direct evidence was sparse, all three buildings may have
been multifunctional, possibly combining residential and commercial
functions. To the rear was a palimpsest of features, including
plot-boundary ditches and a group of wells and/or water cisterns.
The Roman properties on either side of this also contained
stone-footed strip buildings during the third century, one
separated by a minor road, extending north-west from the main road.
The stone-footed building, and probably also those in the adjacent
plots, had been demolished by c AD 270. Subsequent activity was
extremely limited, but included the cutting, in the late
third/early fourth century, of a ditch along the north-eastern
boundary of the targeted plot. Thereafter, the site seems to have
been abandoned completely, and no evidence of post-Roman activity
was identified
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Imprint: |
Oxford Archaeology North
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Lancaster Imprints, 27 |
Release date: |
July 2019 |
Authors: |
John Zant
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Dimensions: |
297 x 210 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
188 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-907686-33-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
Archaeology >
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LSN: |
1-907686-33-9 |
Barcode: |
9781907686337 |
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