John Creighton

University of Reading · Department of Archaeology

North Leigh Roman villa ranks as one of the largest known courtyard villas of Roman Britain. ¹ Situated just above the floodplain of the river Evenlode, which loops around the site, the villa lies c. 2 miles north of North Leigh village and 10 miles west of Oxford (SP 397 154). The building developed within the Late Iron Age earthwork complex of th...

Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum) is a Roman town in Hampshire, in central southern Britain. Unlike many the site was abandoned in the post-Roman period leaving it as a largely green-field site now. The Amphitheatre, Town Wall and some Outer Defences all remain visible for the visitor to see. The town has been highly influential in the development of...

ROMANO-BRITISH WATERSCAPES - Rogers ( A.) Water and Roman Urbanism. Towns, Waterscapes, Land Transformation and Experience in Roman Britain. (Mnemosyne Supplements 355.) Pp. xiv + 278, ills, map. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013. Cased, £105, €118, US$161. ISBN: 978-90-04-24787-1. - Volume 66 Issue 2 - John Creighton

Hoards of denarii are common in Britain and the number which have been recorded in detail means that it is now possible to suggest reasonably accurately what a ‘normal’ hoard of a particular date should look like. That being the case, we can then look for variation around that norm and both investigate and speculate what that variation means. A met...

This paper explores the nature and chronology of La Tene and early Roman unenclosed agglomerations in central-eastern France. It has been prompted by the discovery of a c. 115 ha La Tene D2b/Augustan (c. 50 BC to AD 15) site close to Bibracte in the Morvan, located around the source of the River Yonne. This complex provides a new perspective on the...

This paper examines the extent to which a structured undergraduate research intervention, UROP, permits undergraduate students early access to legitimate peripheral participation (LPP) in a research community of practice. Accounts of placement experiences suggest that UROP affords rich possibilities for engagement with research practice. Undergradu...

Undergraduate research opportunity programmes (UROP) are common in North America where research has confirmed their benefits. These schemes are gaining ground in the UK, and this article provides evidence for how UK students are benefiting from the experience. Results suggest UROP makes a significant contribution to the research capabilities and co...

The implementation of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA 1995 & 2005) has significantly raised the profile of employment issues and inclusion in the last few years. This in turn has led to a plethora of projects producing guidelines covering a wide range of occupations and activities. The purpose of this document is to provide specific advice o...

This article presents the results of a pilot programme of fieldwork carried out between 2000-3 in the Arroux Valley in southern Burgundy close to Autun and Mont Beuvray. In the late Iron Age, this region was inhabited by the Aedui, an early ally of Rome, who had their principal stronghold at Mont Beuvray (Bibracte), high up in the Morvan. The 19th...

Until comparatively recently the archaeological study of ancient towns had been largely conditioned by urban development or individual research interests. This is especially true of Mediterranean sites whose especial richness has generated most attention upon their monumental aspect. Such work provides us with only partial glimpses of urban landsca...

The majority of Icenian coin hoards have traditionally been dated to the historical events of the Boudican revolt. This paper removes that link and examines the material using classical numismatic methods to show that far from all being of one date they represent a series of depositions throughout the period of the client kingdom: AD 43–60/1. It al...

Jean and John Comaroff's paper provides an elegant narrative describing the processes at work behind the adoption of coinage amongst the Tswana of southern Africa under the influence of European missionaries and colonists. My own particular interests are set back two thousand years earlier with the adoption of coin in France and Britain. At this ti...

This book completely re-evaluates the evidence for, and the interpretation of, the rule of the kings of Late Iron Age Britain: Cunobelin and Verica. Within a few generations of their reigns, after one died and the other had fled, Rome's ceremonial centres had been transformed into the magnificence of Roman towns with monumental public buildings and...

Both Greg Woolf and Jan Slofstra have written articles that consider the theoretical agendas of archaeologists constructing narratives of the early Roman period. Then, both go on to construct their own narratives of change in two contiguous, but rather different areas of temperate Europe. In general I find the first part of their narratives as cons...

This paper assesses the overall research priorities for British Iron Age archaeology in the coming decades. Discussion is organised around five general themes: within each of these, we set out particular topics on which research is essential or should be encouraged, based on current understandings of the period. Each section is followed by a summar...

This paper assesses the overall research priorities for British Iron Age archaeology in the coming decades. Discussion is organised around five general themes: within each of these, we set out particular topics on which research is essential or should be encouraged, based on current understandings of the period. Each section is followed by a summar...

Cunobelin, Shakespeare's Cymbeline, ruled much of south-east Britain in the years before Claudius' legions arrived, creating the Roman province of Britannia. But what do we know of him and his rule, and that of competing dynasties in south-east Britain? This book examines the background to these, the first individuals in British history. It explore...

Cunobelin, Shakespeare's Cymbeline, ruled much of south-east Britain in the years before Claudius' legions arrived, creating the Roman province of Britannia. But what do we know of him and his rule, and that of competing dynasties in south-east Britain? This book examines the background to these, the first individuals in British history. It explore...

Southern Spain's archaeological record is a rich one but for the Roman period archaeological research has yielded limited results. The major settlement of Penaflor, the site of ancient Cleti, was selected for excavation for its good epigraphic and historical record and its excellent uncluttered stratigraphic sequence. The excavations aimed to estab...

A geographical survey and the systematic collection of surface materials within unexcavated parts of Italica has revealed the discovery of plans of hitherto buried buildings in the Nova Urbs, as well as evidence about their chronology and decoration. It has been confirmed that Hadrianic Italica was an exceptional town, the inspiration for much of w...

La prospección geofísica y la recolección sistemática de materiales de superficie dentro de áreas no excavadas de Itálica han puesto al descubierto las plantas de edificios, ahora enterrados, en la "Nova Urbs", así como datos sobre su cronología y decoración. Nos confirma que la Itálica de Adriano fue una ciudad excepcional, cuya inspiración debe b...

CONTENTS R. J. A. Wilson and J. D. Creighton - Introduction: recent research on Roman Germany Angelika Wigg - Confrontation and interaction: Celts, Germans and Romans in the Central German Highlands D. Krausse - Romanization in the Middle Rhine and Moselle region: new evidence from recent excavations in Luxembourg, Rhineland-Pfalz and Saarland A. K...

Cet article décrit la découverte en 1994 d'une inhumation isolée de l'âge du fer tardif près de l'oppidum de Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester). L'inhumation comprenait des dépouilles incinérées d'un adulte d'environ 30 ans, aussi d'un enfant de moins de 5 ans, enterrés dans une urne de poterie d'un type bien connu à Calleva. Cette urne contenait aussi...

Geophysical survey and excavation have demonstrated that iron age settlement features and early Anglo-Saxon burials discovered during road construction in 1983 were part of an extensive multi-period site, now a Scheduled Ancient Monument. This paper presents the results of the archaeological investigations. The bulk of the report is concerned with...

On the 29 July 1984 archaeologists engaged in a survey of the later Prehistoric and Romano-British landscape around Holme-on-Spalding Moor in East Yorkshire visited land at Hasholme which was being drained. Examination of the drainage works led to the discovery of fragments of a substantial logboat amongst timbers which had been removed from the fe...