Beyond walls: Reassessing Iron Age and Roman encounters in Northern Britain

Manuel Fernandez-Gotz; Dave Cowley; Derek Hamilton; Ian J. Hardwick; Sophie McDonald

doi:10.15184/aqy.2022.47

Beyond walls: Reassessing Iron Age and Roman encounters in Northern Britain

Manuel Fernandez-Gotz^*, Dave Cowley, Derek Hamilton, Ian J. Hardwick, Sophie McDonald

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Abstract

Northern Britain is one of a few areas in Western Europe over which the Roman Empire did not establish full control. In order to reassess the impact of Rome in this northernmost frontier, the new Leverhulme-funded project Beyond Walls is analysing the long-term transformation of settlement patterns in an area extending from south of Hadrian's Wall to north of the Antonine Wall. The results of a pilot study around Burnswark hillfort demonstrate the potential of such a landscape-based approach.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1021-1029
Journal	Antiquity
Volume	96
Issue number	388
Early online date	25 May 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2022.47
Publication status	Published - Aug 2022

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Northern Britain
Iron Age
Roman military
settlement patterns

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Beyond walls: Reassessing Iron Age and Roman encounters in Northern Britain

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