Portae cum turribus - Studies of Roman fort gates (Paperback, Revised edition)

First published 1989, a new edition of the proceedings of a seminar held in South Shields (N England) in July 1985 on the architecture of the gates and defences of auxiliary forts in the early principate. Contents: 1) Timber gateways, with a note on iron fittings (W H Manning and I R Scott); 2) The evidence for the form and appearance of turf and timber defences of Roman forts in the late first century, based on experiments at the Lunt Roman fort (Brian Hobley); 3) The defences of the Roman forts at Bu Ngem and Gheriat el-Garbia (Derek Welsby); 4) The reconstructed Roman remains at Castlefield, Manchester (John Walker); 5) The principal gateways of masonry forts on the Hadrianic frontier in England: aspects of their construction, planning, and possible appearance (Julian Bennett); 6) Notes on the north gateway of milecastle 39, Castle Nick (James Crow); 7) The reconstruction of a gate at the Roman fort of South Shields (Paul Bidwell, Roger Miket and Bill Ford ).

General

Imprint:	Bar Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	British Archaeological Reports British Series
Release date:	2009
First published:	2009
Editors:	Paul Bidwell • Bill Ford • Roger Miket
Dimensions:	297 x 210mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	249
Edition:	Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4073-0520-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > European archaeology > Classical Greek & Roman archaeology
LSN:	1-4073-0520-4
Barcode:	9781407305202

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