Silchester (Calleva) experienced major disruption in the late first century A.D. as the Iron Age oppidum was transformed into the Roman city responsible for the administration of the civitas of the Atrebates. Aligned on the cardinal points, a rectilinear street grid was laid across the settlement replacing the late Iron Age network of streets and lanes oriented north-west/south-east and north-east/south-west. While the pre-existing property boundaries within Insula IX were retained there was a total re-build within them. The excavated area contained one complete property and fragments of three of its neighbors. Rather than conform to the new grid all the buildings were constructed at 45 degrees to it, reasserting the late Iron Age orientations. The timber-framed buildings within the property consisted of a row of three - rectangular kitchen, town-house and a roundhouse - separated by a yard from a re-built taberna, also diagonal to the street on which it fronted. The surgical and writing instruments associated with the circular building suggested it functioned as a healer’s and/or teacher’s house. This volume completes the publication of the excavations in Insula IX, 1997–2014.
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
SECTION 1 – THE SITE
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION (Michael Fulford)
CHAPTER 2. THE EXCAVATION (Nicholas Pankhurst, Amanda Clarke and Michael Fulford)
SECTION 2 – THE FINDS
THE FINDS INTRODUCTION (Michael Fulford)
CHAPTER 3. INTERPRETING THE ROMAN COIN ASSEMBLAGE FROM INSULA IX (Philippa J. Walton)
CHAPTER 4. THE SMALL FINDS (Nina Crummy)
CHAPTER 5. THE INTAGLIOS FROM INSULA IX (Martin Henig)
CHAPTER 6. AN OVERVIEW OF THE SMALL FINDS FROM INSULA IX (Nina Crummy)
CHAPTER 7. THE VESSEL GLASS (H.E.M. Cool)
CHAPTER 8. AN OVERVIEW OF THE ROMAN GLASS FROM INSULA IX (H. E.M. Cool)
CHAPTER 9. THE POTTERY (Jane Timby, with J. Bird, B.M. Dickinson, K.F. Hartley, V. Jones, J.M. Mills, V. Rigby and R.S.O. Tomlin)
CHAPTER 10. THE QUERNS (Ruth Shaffrey)
CHAPTER 11. THE ARCHITECTURAL AND OTHER WORKED STONE (Kevin Hayward, with R.S.O. Tomlin)
CHAPTER 12. THE CERAMIC BUILDING MATERIAL (Sara Machin)
SECTION 3 – THE ENVIRONMENTAL EVIDENCE
CHAPTER 13. THE HUMAN REMAINS (Mary E. Lewis)
CHAPTER 14. THE ANIMAL REMAINS (Claire Ingrem, with Kate Clark)
CHAPTER 15. THE CHARRED PLANT REMAINS (Lisa Lodwick)
CHAPTER 16. POLLEN AND PARASITOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF PERIOD 1 WELLS 15014 AND 15034 (Petra Dark)
CHAPTER 17. THE ELEMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY (Samantha R. Cook and Nicholas Pankhurst)
CHAPTER 18. THE MICROSTRATIGRAPHY AND USE OF THE PERIOD 2 BUILDINGS (Rowena Banerjea)
SECTION 4 – DISCUSSION
CHAPTER 19. CONCLUDING DISCUSSION (Michael Fulford)
THE APPENDICES
APPENDIX 1. REFERENCES TO GLASS VESSELS AND WINDOW GLASS IN THE SILCHESTER EXCAVATION REPORTS IN ARCHAEOLOGIA (H. E.M. Cool)
APPENDIX 2. PERIOD 3–5 VESSEL TYPES (H.E.M. Cool)
APPENDIX 3. DESCRIPTION OF FABRICS AND ASSOCIATED FORMS FROM PERIOD 2 (EXCLUDING SIGILLATA) (Jane Timby)
APPENDIX 4. THE IRON NAILS (Jenni Eaton)
APPENDIX 5. ANALYSIS OF MORTAR, PLASTER AND OPUS SIGNINUM (Christopher Speed)
APPENDIX 6. METALLURGICAL RESIDUES (Christopher Speed)
APPENDIX 7. THE ANIMAL BONE (Claire Ingrem and Kate Clark)
ONLINE APPENDICES
APPENDIX 8. TH E SMALL FINDS CATALOGUE (Nina Crummy)
APPENDIX 9. THE SAMIAN FROM THE STRUCTURES (J.M. Mills)
APPENDIX 10. THE SAMIAN FROM THE KEY GROUPS (J.M. Mills)
APPENDIX 11. THE STONE CATALOGUE (Kevin Hayward)
APPENDIX 12. THE HAMMERSCALE (online table only) (Jenni Eaton)
APPENDIX 13. THE MARINE SHELL (online table only) (Jenni Eaton)
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Index
