Richard Hingley
Biographic Data
| ID | 144000 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Hingley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Hingley |
| SIGNATURE | HINGLEY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4893-2854 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 66 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 315 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 65 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Geophysical Surveys and LiDAR Topographic Analysis of the Vallum and Its Wider Landscape at Milking Gap, Hadrian's Wall
We present the results of geophysical surveys and LiDAR analysis of the Vallum and wider landscape at Milking Gap, on Hadrian's Wall. Magnetic gradiometry and Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) surveys were utilised to investigate the landscape context of the Vallum and provide insight into the stratigraphy of the preserved earthworks. While the gradiometry data were affected by the geological background, surveys imaged discrete features wit…
Contribuições para uma arqueologia de Roma pós-colonial: Ligando Brasil e Grã-Bretanha
Homenagem a Pedro Paulo Abreu Funari
Fostering tolerance through museums: Assessing visitor engagement with historical analogies at three archaeological galleries in the UK
This study is the first to quantitatively investigate museum visitors’ perceptions of historical analogies that compare concepts from the deep past to modern political ideas. Specifically, we assess the capacity of heritage sites to influence visitors’ historical consciousness in ways that foster tolerance by exposing and challenging those analogies that feature in exclusive nationalist discourse. This is achieved by analysing the responses submi…
Contextualising Counterfeits: Roman Coin Moulds in Britain and the Channel Islands
This paper addresses the archaeological contexts of the clay moulds used to produce copies of Roman coins in third-century Britain. Previous research has focused primarily upon the technology and chronology of the use of moulds to produce coins with the discarded remains of the used moulds considered as ‘waste’ items from an industrial process. This paper focuses attention on the deposition of the moulds. Using the best-recorded finds, it builds …
Hadrian’s Wall as Artscape
This paper draws upon the concept of "artscape", a term adopted in studies of contemporary urban and borderland contexts. Nine artworks sited along Hadrian's Wall form the case studies. These interventions aim to challenge the traditional concept of Hadrian's Wall as a fixed and well-defined ancient monument set within an unchanging landscape. Many of the projects reflect, directly or indirectly, upon the ethics of contemporary bordering practice…
The Later History of the Roman Northern Frontier
Hadrian was succeeded by Antoninus Pius, who decided to focus the attention of Rome on conquering additional territory in northern Britain. He instructed the governor of Britain, Lollius Urbicus, to campaign to the north of Hadrian’s Wall; this resulted in the construction of a second monumental frontier, the Antonine Wall, in southern Scotland. The campaign to incorporate this additional territory stretched the troops so thinly across the wester…
The Northern Frontier
Within a year of the arrival of a new governor in Britain after the departure of Agricola, it became clear that considerable additional campaigning, and extra troops, would be required to conquer and subdue the mountains of the Scottish Highlands. At the same time a significant conflict developed with the kingdom of Dacia on the River Danube, requiring Domitian to withdraw troops from Britain. Rome withdrew from northern Scotland in around 86–87.…
Finding the End of Britain
Vespasian established his rule as emperor in 69 and, with his prior experience of campaigning in Britain, focused Roman attention on completing the conquest. He appointed an ambitious governor and supplied an extra legion to accomplish this task. The first phase of conquest under Vespasian resulted from a second rebellion by the Brigantes against Cartimandua, which presented Rome with the excuse to conquer a substantial area of central Britain. T…
Rebellion
The initial years of the emperor Nero’s reign witnessed the expansion of Roman territory in Britain, as campaigns extended the province into south-western, western, and central Britain. One notable event was a marital dispute between the friendly queen Cartimandua of the Brigantes and her husband, Venutius. Roman troops marched to the north to defend her from the uprising against her rule. The provincial governor, Suetonius Paulinus, was campaign…
Julius Caesar in Britain
This chapter is an exploration of the two campaigns led by the great Roman commander in 55 and 54 bce. Caesar left a vitally important account of his invasions of south-eastern Britain which provides information about his campaigns and addresses the Iron Age peoples of Britain. Significant archaeological discoveries have supplemented, and often challenged, this narrative. These include the recent discovery of Caesar’s probable landing site from h…
Conquering the Ocean: The Roman Invasion of Britain
Romanization
Egalitarianism in the southern British Iron Age
The Iron Age may appeal to researchers and the public as a result of the broad spiritual message of a relatively egalitarian and environmental decentralised past. By contrast, across Europe, the Roman period tends to be defined as more structured and hierarchical, more urban and industrial (Hingley, Bonacchi and Sharpe 2018; González Álvarez and Alonso González 2013). The idea of the egalitarian Iron Age is perhaps primarily intended to create th…
Assessing How Representation of the Roman Past Impacts Public Perceptions of the Province of Britain
There is a lack of detailed research into the attitudes of the public in Britain to the Roman past. Information and views about the Roman period are communicated to people in the UK through education at school and also by the media (TV, films, the Internet). Museums and other heritage centres also provide interpretations for visitors, although these venues tend to cater for people who have progressed to a fairly advanced level in the educational …
Londinium: A Biography
This major new work on Roman London brings together the many new discoveries of the last generation and provides a broad overview of the city from its foundation to the fifth century AD. Richard Hingley explores the archaeological and historical evidence for London under the Romans, assessing the city in the context of its province and the wider empire. He explores the multiple functions of Londinium over time, considering economy, industry, trad…
Alexander Smith , Martyn Allen , Tom Brindle & Mike Fulford . The rural settlement of Roman Britain (Britannia Monograph 29). 2016. xxv+469 pages, 400 colour illustrations. London: The Roman Society; …
Alexander Smith , Martyn Allen , Tom Brindle & Mike Fulford . The rural settlement of Roman Britain (Britannia Monograph 29). 2016. xxv+469 pages, 400 colour illustrations. London: The Roman Society; 978-0-907764-43-4 paperback £40. - Volume 91 Issue 358
The Romans in Britain: Colonization on an Imperial Frontier
Frontiers and Mobilities: The Frontiers of the Roman Empire and Europe
This article addresses questions relating to the ‘Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site’ and seeks to introduce into this initiative some concepts derived from recent writings on contemporary mobilities and bordering, exploring the possibility of creating greater engagement between the two academic fields of ‘border studies’ and ‘Roman Frontier Studies’. By examining the relationship between the Roman Frontiers initiative and the Euro…
Exploring Ancient Identities in Modern Britain
This brief update introduces the framework of a newly funded research project entitled 'Iron Age and Roman Heritages: Exploring ancient identities in modern Britain' to be undertaken collaboratively by Durham University and the UCL Institute of Archaeology, and supported by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (2016–2019)1. The project assesses how the Iron Age, Roman and, via smaller pilot studies, the early Medieval pasts of England, Sco…
Working with Descendant Communities in the Study of Roman Britain: Fragments of an Ethnographic Project Design
From Plunder to Preservation: Britain and the Heritage of Empire, edited by Astrid Swenson and Peter Mandler
This volume explores the impact of the British Empire on the peoples that it incorporated through a range of case studies that address the topic of heritage. It derives from a conference held in Ca
Early Studies in Roman Britain: 1610 To 1906
For great part of four hundred years, the Romans occupied this island in a state of peace and tranquility: and a colony so fertile, and abounding in beautiful situations, must have been inhabited by many Roman adventurers, who migrated hither with their families, and built villas or country seats, where they lived in some degree of opulence and elegance.Even the Britons of rank might have built houses in the Roman taste.Whenever we talk of the Ro…
Post-colonial and global Rome: The genealogy of empire
This chapter reflects upon how contemporary scholarship in Roman studies relates to the politics of our world. Classical concepts of order, security and civilisation are deeply embedded within political understandings of the present. The Roman empire makes sense to us, in part, because our society sees contemporary values and aims embodied in the evidence from the classical past. This reflects the two-way relationship between classical times and …
Early Studies in Roman Britain
This chapter provides a summary of changing interpretation of Roman Britain between 1586 and 1906. It commences with the interpretation of the history of the Roman province outlined by William Camden in his seminal account Britannia. It provides an exploration of two myths of origin that had a powerful role in England in the centuries following Camden: the idea that civilization in the lowlands commenced with the Roman Conquest and the contrastin…
Colonial and Post-colonial Archaeologies
This chapter explores the colonial contexts in which the theories and practices of archaeology emerged. It explores how archaeology has contributed to the intellectualization of colonialism and the transformation in academic traditions that have occurred over the past 30 years. A number of problems with the idea that archaeology is now ‘post-colonial’ are raised—issues that relate to the economics and politics of the contemporary world. The chapt…
Globalizing Roman Culture: Unity, Diversity and Empire
Richard Hingley here asks the questions: What is Romanization? Was Rome the first global culture?Romanization has been represented as a simple progression from barbarism to civilization. Roman forms in architecture, coinage, language and literature came to dominate the world from Britain to Syria. Hingley argues for a more complex and nuanced view in which Roman models provided the means for provincial elites to articulate their own concerns. Inh…
Archaeologies of Landscape: Excavating the Materialities of Hadrian’s Wall
This article interrogates the materiality of Hadrian's Wall beyond its widespread perception as a monument of/to Ancient Rome. Encounters with this monument have generated multitudinous materialities: hegemonic, conflicting and ambiguous. These trajectories have their own material circulations in both solid and narrative forms. Here, we consider materiality through the cultures inspired by/of the Wall. Through the formulation of an interdisciplin…
Ancestors and identity in the later prehistory of Atlantic Scotland: The reuse and reinvention of Neolithic monuments and material culture
The Neolithic chambered cairns of Atlantic Scotland were monumental constructions. To an observer living in the later prehistoric period they would have seemed impressive structures, but dark, subterranean and gloomy. The human remains and cultural relics on the floors of some of these tombs, if they were visible or disturbed, would have drawn attention to their ancient construction and links with the dead. The chambers of a number of chambered c…
Roman Officers and English Gentlemen: The Imperial Origins of Roman Archaeology
This landmark book shows how much Victorian and Edwardian Roman archaeologists were influenced by their own experience of empire in their interpretation of archaeological evidence. This distortion of the facts became accepted truth and its legacy is still felt in archaeology today. While tracing the development of these ideas, the author also gives the reader a throrough grounding in the history of Roman archaeology itself
Rural settlement in Roman Britain
The Landscape of Roman Britain
The Landscape of Roman Britain is the first book to combine the latest advances in the archaeology of the period with new scientific approaches to environmental reconstruction. It brings together information from excavated sites and archaeological survey data with that provided by the study of ancient plant and animal remains in order to produce a fuller picture of the society, economy and natural environment of the Romano-British countryside tha…
Iron Age ‘Currency Bars’: The Archaeological and Social Context
It will be proposed that the common utilitarian or functional explanation for the deposition of currency bars is too simple and should be amended to allow greater emphasis on the social context of the acts of production and deposition. Research indicates that currency bars—both as single finds and as hoards—occur in a limited range of archaeological contexts. It would appear that the act of deposition occurred under strict control and that the ma…
Society in Scotland from 700 BC to AD 200
This paper considers the evidence for Iron Age society in Scotland. Limitations of past research are considered and it is argued that new perspectives currently developing are vital to attainment of a comprehensive understanding of past society. A thematic approach is used to review some useful recent work. This approach considers the evidence from Scotland for the organisation of the household, of the community, and for the nature of production,…
Esoteric Knowledge? Ancient Bronze Artefacts from Iron Age Contexts
‘Esoteric knowledge is knowledge of the unusual, the exceptional, the extraordinary; knowledge of things that in some way lie beyond the familiar everyday world’ (Helms 1988, 13) This paper explores the ways in which Bronze Age bronze artefacts may, on occasions, have been used in the commemoration of place during the southern British Iron Age. The chronologically-based typological systems adopted by archaeologists indicate that these artefacts o…
Frontiers and Mobilities: The Frontiers of the Roman Empire and Europe
This article addresses questions relating to the ‘Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site’ and seeks to introduce into this initiative some concepts derived from recent writings on contemporary mobilities and bordering, exploring the possibility of creating greater engagement between the two academic fields of ‘border studies’ and ‘Roman Frontier Studies’. By examining the relationship between the Roman Frontiers initiative and the Euro…
Projecting empire: The mapping of Roman Britain
This article reviews the mapping of Roman Britain, from Roman antiquity to the contemporary age. By reviewing the classical mapping of the British Isles and three particular examples of cartographic representation produced during early modern and modern times, it is argued that the Roman past of Britain has been made to perform particular roles with regard to the creation of early modern and modern imperial discourse. By generating a Roman ancest…
Struggling with a Roman inheritance. A response to Versluys
I am very grateful to Miguel John Versluys for this paper, which raises several important issues that derive from current debates in Roman archaeology. I am aware of the context of Versluys's arguments as I am a contributor to the forthcoming volume Globalization and the Roman world (which Versluys has jointly edited; Pitts and Versluys 2014). I am pleased to be able to develop some of the themes outlined in my chapter for that volume (Hingley 20…
Life of an ancient monument: Hadrian's Wall in history
The Romans are Britain's favourite invaders, and Hadrian's Wall is among the largest and finest of the relics they left behind on the island. However, as our authors urge, we should demand more intellectual depth from our monuments today. Not simply a cultural asset anchored in the Roman empire, Hadrian's Wall had a busy afterlife, a material history reflecting the uses, attitudes and emotions of later centuries. Its 'biography' not only captures…
Not so Romanized? Tradition, reinvention or discovery in the study of Roman Britain
Recent scholarship has claimed that the history of Roman Britain has been discussed in terms of 'Romanization' since the beginning of the seventeenth century. In fact, it is wrong to think that there is a single tradition in the understanding of Roman Britain. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Camden and his followers were primarily interested in the bringing of 'civility' to England, with only a minimal consciousness of material cultu…
Location, Function and Status: A Romano‐british ‘Religious Complex’ at the Noah's Ark Inn, Frilford (Oxfordshire)
An archaeological survey of the Noah's Ark Inn was undertaken with the intention of providing insight into the location, function and status of the known Romano‐British temple site. The survey resulted in the discovery of an amphitheatre and associated buildings in close proximity to the temple. It is now clear that the Noah's Ark Inn site is an example of an extensive ‘religious complex’ of a type well known in Gaul, but not very well represente…
Assessing How Representation of the Roman Past Impacts Public Perceptions of the Province of Britain
There is a lack of detailed research into the attitudes of the public in Britain to the Roman past. Information and views about the Roman period are communicated to people in the UK through education at school and also by the media (TV, films, the Internet). Museums and other heritage centres also provide interpretations for visitors, although these venues tend to cater for people who have progressed to a fairly advanced level in the educational …
Britons and Romans: Advancing an Archaeological Agenda
This challenging book encourages those with an interest in Roman Britain to think broadly and to engage actively in shaping the future priorities of research into the subject. The volume reconsiders many assumptions about relations between Romans and the indigenous population and the authors explore themes as diverse as: the Iron Age/Roman and Roman/Medieval transitions; Romanisation; material culture and identity; rural society; urbanism; zooarc…
Excavations at Roughground Farm, Lechlade, Gloucestershire: A Prehistoric and Roman Landscape
Location, Function and Status: A Romano‐british ‘Religious Complex’ at the Noah's Ark Inn, Frilford (Oxfordshire)
An archaeological survey of the Noah's Ark Inn was undertaken with the intention of providing insight into the location, function and status of the known Romano‐British temple site. The survey resulted in the discovery of an amphitheatre and associated buildings in close proximity to the temple. It is now clear that the Noah's Ark Inn site is an example of an extensive ‘religious complex’ of a type well known in Gaul, but not very well represente…
Rural settlement in Roman Britain
Iron Age ‘Currency Bars’: The Archaeological and Social Context
It will be proposed that the common utilitarian or functional explanation for the deposition of currency bars is too simple and should be amended to allow greater emphasis on the social context of the acts of production and deposition. Research indicates that currency bars—both as single finds and as hoards—occur in a limited range of archaeological contexts. It would appear that the act of deposition occurred under strict control and that the ma…
Attitudes to Roman Imperialism
It is argued that Romano-British studies have been influenced by the existence and organisation of Britain’s own empire. A positive conception of Roman imperialism is still current and this indicates that many Romanists have yet to escape from moral precepts derived from our own imperial past. In recent years a number of authors have criticised the use of pro-imperialist models, but reviews of models outlined by members of the post- imperial gene…
Society in Scotland from 700 BC to AD 200
This paper considers the evidence for Iron Age society in Scotland. Limitations of past research are considered and it is argued that new perspectives currently developing are vital to attainment of a comprehensive understanding of past society. A thematic approach is used to review some useful recent work. This approach considers the evidence from Scotland for the organisation of the household, of the community, and for the nature of production,…
Britannia, Origin Myths and the British Empire
Ancestors and identity in the later prehistory of Atlantic Scotland: The reuse and reinvention of Neolithic monuments and material culture
The Neolithic chambered cairns of Atlantic Scotland were monumental constructions. To an observer living in the later prehistoric period they would have seemed impressive structures, but dark, subterranean and gloomy. The human remains and cultural relics on the floors of some of these tombs, if they were visible or disturbed, would have drawn attention to their ancient construction and links with the dead. The chambers of a number of chambered c…
Laura I. KOOISTRA. Borderland farming: Possibilities and limitations of farming in the Roman period and Early Middle Ages between the Rhine and Meuse. 401 pages, 70 illustrations, 67 tables. 1996. Ass…
LAURA I. KOOISTRA. Borderland farming: possibilities and limitations of farming in the Roman period and Early Middle Ages between the Rhine and Meuse. 401 pages, 70 illustrations, 67 tables. 1996. Assen: Van Gorcum; 90-232-3199-6 paperback Df.75. - Volume 71 Issue 273
Excavations at Roughground Farm, Lechlade, Gloucestershire: A Prehistoric and Roman Landscape
The excavation of two later Iron Age fortified homesteads at Aldclune, Blair Atholl, Perth & Kinross
Two small `forts', probably large round houses, occupying a natural eminence and further defended by banks and ditches, were excavated in advance of road building. Construction began at Site 2 between the first and second centuries BC and at Site 1 between the second and third centuries AD. Two major phases of occupation were found at each site. There are notes on: `Natural topography and landuse' by I D Máté (411--12); `Charcoal identification' …
The Landscape of Roman Britain
The Landscape of Roman Britain is the first book to combine the latest advances in the archaeology of the period with new scientific approaches to environmental reconstruction. It brings together information from excavated sites and archaeological survey data with that provided by the study of ancient plant and animal remains in order to produce a fuller picture of the society, economy and natural environment of the Romano-British countryside tha…
Britons and Romans: Advancing an Archaeological Agenda
This challenging book encourages those with an interest in Roman Britain to think broadly and to engage actively in shaping the future priorities of research into the subject. The volume reconsiders many assumptions about relations between Romans and the indigenous population and the authors explore themes as diverse as: the Iron Age/Roman and Roman/Medieval transitions; Romanisation; material culture and identity; rural society; urbanism; zooarc…
Becoming Roman, Writing Latin? Literacy and Epigraphy in the Roman West
Armit, Towers in the North
Globalizing Roman Culture: Unity, Diversity and Empire
Richard Hingley here asks the questions: What is Romanization? Was Rome the first global culture?Romanization has been represented as a simple progression from barbarism to civilization. Roman forms in architecture, coinage, language and literature came to dominate the world from Britain to Syria. Hingley argues for a more complex and nuanced view in which Roman models provided the means for provincial elites to articulate their own concerns. Inh…
Britannia: The Creation of a Roman Province. By J ohn C reighton
(2006). Britannia: The Creation of a Roman Province. By John Creighton. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 163, No. 1, pp. 276-277
George Lambrick & Tim Allen. Gravelly Guy, Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire: The development of a prehistoric and Romano-British community (Thames Valley Landscape Monograph 21). xix+520 pages, 171 figur…
George Lambrick & Tim Allen. Gravelly Guy, Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire: the development of a prehistoric and Romano-British community (Thames Valley Landscape Monograph 21). xix+520 pages, 171 figures, 31 plates, 120 tables. 2004. Oxford: Oxford University School of Archaeology/Oxford Archaeology; 0-947816-66-6 hardback £34.95. - Volume 80 Issue 307
Projecting empire: The mapping of Roman Britain
This article reviews the mapping of Roman Britain, from Roman antiquity to the contemporary age. By reviewing the classical mapping of the British Isles and three particular examples of cartographic representation produced during early modern and modern times, it is argued that the Roman past of Britain has been made to perform particular roles with regard to the creation of early modern and modern imperial discourse. By generating a Roman ancest…
Conclusion
The works examined above have been explored through a chronological study based upon the four overlapping themes of civility/ Romanization, the walling out of humanity, Roman incomers, and ruination, emphasized through a reading of the sources to explore how the discovery of objects and sites has helped to inform a number of contrasting interpretations that went in and out of fashion. A number of more local and fragmented tales have also been add…
The recovery of Roman Britain 1586-1906: A Colony So Fertile
Imagining Roman Britain: Victorian Responses to a Roman Past. By V irginia H oselitz
Monuments, Memory, and Myth: Use and Re-Use of Three Bronze Age Round Barrows at Cossington, Leicestershire. By J ohn T homas
The Recovery of Roman Britain 1586-1906: A Colony So Fertile
From the sixteenth century, classical texts enabled Scottish and English authors and artists to imagine the character and appearance of their forebears and to consider the relevance of these ideas to their contemporaries. Richard Hingley's study crosses traditional academic boundaries by exploring sources usually separately addressed by historians, classicists, archaeologists, and geographers, to provide a new perspective on the origin of English…
Not so Romanized? Tradition, reinvention or discovery in the study of Roman Britain
Recent scholarship has claimed that the history of Roman Britain has been discussed in terms of 'Romanization' since the beginning of the seventeenth century. In fact, it is wrong to think that there is a single tradition in the understanding of Roman Britain. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Camden and his followers were primarily interested in the bringing of 'civility' to England, with only a minimal consciousness of material cultu…
Esoteric Knowledge? Ancient Bronze Artefacts from Iron Age Contexts
‘Esoteric knowledge is knowledge of the unusual, the exceptional, the extraordinary; knowledge of things that in some way lie beyond the familiar everyday world’ (Helms 1988, 13) This paper explores the ways in which Bronze Age bronze artefacts may, on occasions, have been used in the commemoration of place during the southern British Iron Age. The chronologically-based typological systems adopted by archaeologists indicate that these artefacts o…
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