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Author: Rebecca H. Jones Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 408
Book Description
Scotland contains a wealth of Roman camps and this book is a companion volume to earlier publications of camps in England and Wales. As the northern frontier zone of Britain subject to repeated campaigns by the Roman army the area possesses a wide and fascinating range of camp sites recorded both as earthwork remains and through cropmarkings from the air. The field evidence is discussed against the background of Roman army campaigns with each of the camps described and illustrated in a detailed gazetteer. The book is illustrated throughout with plans maps and photographs and will be of interest to all those who wish to know more about the archaeology of the Roman army its campaigns in northern Britain and the ancient military mind.
Author: Rebecca H. Jones Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 408
Book Description
Scotland contains a wealth of Roman camps and this book is a companion volume to earlier publications of camps in England and Wales. As the northern frontier zone of Britain subject to repeated campaigns by the Roman army the area possesses a wide and fascinating range of camp sites recorded both as earthwork remains and through cropmarkings from the air. The field evidence is discussed against the background of Roman army campaigns with each of the camps described and illustrated in a detailed gazetteer. The book is illustrated throughout with plans maps and photographs and will be of interest to all those who wish to know more about the archaeology of the Roman army its campaigns in northern Britain and the ancient military mind.
Author: Angus Konstam Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1472801660 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 148
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When the Romans withdrew from Britain, the north of the country was ruled by the most mysterious of the ancient British races, the Picts. Much of what is known about these “painted” warriors, comes from the remains of the fortifications that they left scattered around Scotland. Although the Picts are famous as sea raiders, they were also subjected to attacks from a number of opponents. To their south, the Romano-British reoccupied the abandoned Roman fortifications and hired Saxon mercenaries to strike against the Picts. Meanwhile, from the west a new group, the Scoti, attacked from Ireland. This book covers the fortification of the ancient Picts in all their conflicts and discusses the importance of these sites as religious centres and seats of power, while using the latest archeological evidence to help unravel the mystery of this ancient race.
Author: Paul Coby Publisher: Pen and Sword Military ISBN: 1526772116 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 366
Book Description
Paul Coby here proposes a new system for the recording and mapping of Roman forts and fortifications that integrates all the data, including size, dating and identification of occupying units. Application of these methods allows analysis that brings new insights into the placement of these forts, the units garrisoning them and the strategy of conquest and defense they underpinned. This is a new and original contribution to the long-running debate over whether the Roman Empire had a coherent grand strategy or merely reacted piecemeal to emerging needs. Although the author focuses on several major campaigns in Britain as case studies, the author stresses that his method's are also applicable to elsewhere in the Empire. Lavishly illustrated with color maps, the book is also supported by a website and blogs, encouraging further investigation and discussion.
Author: Víctor Lluís Pérez Garcia Publisher: Edicions Excalibur ISBN: 8417793062 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 124
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The secrets of the Roman field fortifications unveiled. A comprehensible introduction with all the existing ancient texts translated into English. This book presents a compilation of four fragments written by different authors who lived in Roman times: Hyginus (1st–2nd century AD), Polybius (2nd century BC), Vegetius (4th century AD) and Flavius Josephus (1st century AD). Besides the modern English translation, it also provides two didactical synthesis on the topic: a brief summary of the Greco-Roman authors and works that inform us about ancient military science, and a concise introductory study on the Roman military camp based on historical and archaeological sources. The author, Dr. Víctor Lluís Pérez Garcia, is a history teacher, archaeology researcher and orientalist, expert in poliorcetics and polemology. ● Genre: military history, Roman archaeology, classical literature ● Illustrations: high-resolution plans and maps (black and white) ● Publisher: Edicions Excalibur (Tarragona, 2019) ● ISBN: 978-84-17793-04-3 (kindle) ● ISBN: 978-84-17793-05-0 (paperback) ● ISBN: 978-84-17793-06-7 (pdf) ● ISBN: 978-84-17793-07-4 (epub)
Author: Andrew Tibbs Publisher: The Crowood Press ISBN: 0719829283 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 481
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Though Scotland was never successfully conquered by the Roman Empire, the lands north of Hadrian's Wall nonetheless include many Roman sites that bear witness to Rome's attempts to impose her will over the whole of Britain. Beyond the Empire offers a complete listing of all 330 known Roman sites in Scotland, including location maps, details of notable archaeological finds, what is visible on the ground, and how to visit them.A complete guide to the hidden remains of the Roman Empire in Scotland.Will be of great interest to all historians, archaeologists and anyone curious about Scotland's role in, and beyond the Roman Empire.Gives a complete listing of all 330 known Roman sites in Scotland.Superbly illustrated with 150 colour photographs and 100 colour maps.Andrew Tibbs is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Author: J. L. Davies Publisher: ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 252
Book Description
The Roman army in Britain left a rich archaeological legacy in the form of permanently occupied installations such as legionary fortresses, auxiliary forts and frontier works. Less well-known are those field-works built by the army on campaign - marching-camps - or as part of its rigorous training regimes, namely practice-works. This volume presents a detailed study of these lesser-known field entrenchments in Wales and the Marches, a region which for a generation from the mid-first century AD became the focus of operations in southern Britain. Thereafter, complexes of practice-works in the vicinity of permanently occupied military bases illustrate the importance of the region to the training regimes of the provincial army. This volume presents a detailed description of those varied camps recorded in Wales and the Marches in the form of a gazetteer, together with plans of all accessible sites, thereby complementing those already published for most of England by the RCAHME. The camps are discussed against the background of Roman military castramentation and tactics on a wide chronological and geographical front, with specific reference to the story of early campaigning in this western region, as well as the subsequent garrisoning phase, as illustrated by a combination of literary and archaeological evidence.
Author: Rebecca H. Jones
Author: Rebecca H. Jones
Author: Rebecca H. Jones
Author: Simon Forder
Author: National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland
Author: Angus Konstam
Author: Paul Coby
Author: David John Breeze
Author: Víctor Lluís Pérez Garcia
Author: Andrew Tibbs
Author: J. L. Davies