Table of Contents

Introduction Lindsay Allason-Jones; 1. Commerce Richard Brickstock; 2. Transport Nina Crummy; 3. Industry W. H. Manning; 4. Agriculture Sîan Rees; 5. Military life M. C. Bishop; 6. Writing and communication R. S. O. Tomlin; 7. Domestic life Quita Mould; 8. Lighting and heating Hella Eckhardt; 9. Personal ornament Ellen Swift; 10. Recreation Lindsay Allason-Jones; 11. Medicine and hygiene Ralph Jackson; 12. Religion Joanna Bird; 13. Funerary rites Hilary Cool.

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Helps the student understand the numerous artefacts from Roman Britain and what they reveal about life in the province.

About the Author

Lindsay Allason-Jones is Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Artefact Studies and Reader in Roman Material Culture at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and has published eight books and over a hundred academic papers on themes related to the archaeology of the Roman Empire. She is the author of two previous textbooks, Women in Roman Britain and Daily Life in Roman Britain.

Reviews

"Highly recommended." -Choice