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The XXI International Congress of Roman Frontier studies was hosted
by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums in Newcastle upon Tyne
(Great Britain) in 2009, 60 years after the first Limeskongress
organised in that city by Eric Birley in 1949. Sixty years on,
delegates could reflect on how the Congress has grown and changed
over six decades and could be heartened at the presence of so many
young scholars and a variety of topics and avenues of research into
the army and frontiers of the Roman empire that would not have been
considered in 1949. Papers are organised into the same thematic
sessions as in the actual conference: Women and Families in the
Roman Army; Roman Roads; The Roman Frontier in Wales; The Eastern
and North African Frontiers; Smaller Structures: towers and
fortlets; Recognising Differences in Lifestyles through Material
Culture; Barbaricum; Britain; Roman Frontiers in a Globalised
World; Civil Settlements; Death and Commemoration; Danubian and
Balkan Provinces; Camps; Logistics and Supply; The Germanies and
Augustan and Tiberian Germany; Spain; Frontier Fleets. This
wide-ranging collection of papers enriches the study of Roman
frontiers in all their aspects.
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 ).
The XXI International Congress of Roman Frontier studies was hosted
by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums in Newcastle upon Tyne
(Great Britain) in 2009, 60 years after the first Limeskongress
organised in that city by Eric Birley in 1949. Sixty years on,
delegates could reflect on how the Congress has grown and changed
over six decades and could be heartened at the presence of so many
young scholars and a variety of topics and avenues of research into
the army and frontiers of the Roman empire that would not have been
considered in 1949. Papers are organised into the same thematic
sessions as in the actual conference: Women and Families in the
Roman Army; Roman Roads; The Roman Frontier in Wales; The Eastern
and North African Frontiers; Smaller Structures: towers and
fortlets; Recognising Differences in Lifestyles through Material
Culture; Barbaricum; Britain; Roman Frontiers in a Globalised
World; Civil Settlements; Death and Commemoration; Danubian and
Balkan Provinces; Camps; Logistics and Supply; The Germanies and
Augustan and Tiberian Germany; Spain; Frontier Fleets. This
wide-ranging collection of papers enriches the study of Roman
frontiers in all their aspects.
More than a tenth of the Roman army's total strength was stationed
in Britain. Focusing on the auxiliary forts that were occupied from
the second century onwards, this work looks at: the plans and
functions of forts; the everyday life of officers and men; what the
study of finds tells us about supply systems; and more.
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