Michael Fulford
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 306961 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael Fulford |
| PRENOMES | Michael |
| SOBRENOME | Fulford |
| ASSINATURA | FULFORD M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8780-9691 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 69 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 310 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 69 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1973 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Silchester
The Iron Age oppidum and Roman city of Calleva Atrebatum at Silchester, Hampshire, UK has been the subject of periodic, extensive excavations since 1864. The paper reviews the changing character and potential research value of the archives generated by these excavations over time. In particular it highlights how developing research, particularly in bioarchaeology, has drawn attention to the potential, long-term research value of a wide range of m…
Brading Roman Villa
Radiocarbon dating of disarticulated human remains from Brading Roman villa (Isle of Wight, UK) assigns them to a single event or multiple events within a short duration in the Late Roman period, c . 220/50–360/400. The evidence of the coins suggests the possibility of a brief abandonment of the villa following a potentially murderous event in the 340s or 350s, perhaps to be linked to reprisals taken by Constantius against supporters of Magnentiu…
Intramural Human Remains from Roman Towns in Britain
Intramural adult human remains, whether articulated or disarticulated, from Roman towns in Britain are uncommon. There is evidence for some remains to have been deliberately curated and/or treated post mortem in a particular way before final deposition. This paper focuses on the disarticulated human remains from late Iron Age and Roman Silchester ( Calleva Atrebatum ), noting the parts of the skeleton represented, their contexts, and whether ther…
Francis M. Morris & Martin Biddle. 2023. Venta Belgarum
Francis M. Morris & Martin Biddle. 2023. Venta Belgarum: prehistoric, Roman, and post-Roman Winchester, 2 volumes (Pre-Roman and Roman Winchester 1) (Winchester Studies 3.i). Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80327-680-9 hardback £240. - Volume 98 Issue 401
The Roman fortlet or defended watch-tower/ pharos at St John the Baptist, Reedham, Norfolk and the Early Medieval origins of the church
To locate the source(s) of the Roman building materials re-used in the church of St John the Baptist, Reedham, Norfolk, survey by ground-penetrating radar within the church and churchyard identified areas of potential interest. These were investigated by small-scale excavation. Roman fabric employing Leziate grey quartzite rock, and brick and tile, was found in two locations about 25 m apart. The style of Roman build is consistent with that of a …
Hadrian and Britain
The lack of written sources and the difficulties of establishing close chronologies from archaeological material mean that it is difficult to identify initiatives other than the commissioning of Hadrian's Wall that can confidently be attributed either to the emperor's visit to Britain in 122 or to his reign more generally. However, the early second century presents several archaeological proxies which point to a quickening of economic activity in…
Building Britannia
Excavation of the Roman tilery at Little London, Pamber, Hampshire, has prompted a reassessment of the dating of relief-patterned tile, assigning the bulk of production to the Claudio-Neronian period rather than the late first to mid-/late second century. This material has been privileged for retention in excavation archives but can now be seen as a proxy for the manufacture of a much wider range of ceramic building material, typically discarded …
Rose Ferraby & Martin Millett. 2020. Isurium Brigantum
Rose Ferraby & Martin Millett. 2020. Isurium Brigantum: an archaeological survey of Roman Aldborough (Research Reports of the Society of Antiquaries of London 81). London: Society of Antiquaries of London; 978-0-8543-1301-3 hardback £35. - Volume 95 Issue 380
The Countryside of Roman Britain
The publication of the RurLand (Rural Landscape in North-East Gaul) project has provided an opportunity to compare methodologies and results with those of The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain project. Two themes, which draw out the asymmetrical development of settlement in the two regions, are examined: the very different impacts of the Roman conquests of Gaul and of Britain on settlement numbers and settlement continuity, and the development of…
Relevant Beyond the Roman Period
Archaeology has been firmly embedded in the British planning systems for over a quarter of century, and development-led fieldwork is now by far the largest source of new information available to researchers. Custom and practice in the way that such work is conducted has evolved over this time, yet methodological innovation has been surprisingly limited. Using the data gathered in a major survey of the rural settlement of Roman Britain, this paper…
Waste disposal in late Iron Age and early Roman Silchester
Silchester
saw the completion of the excavation of a large sample (3025m 2 = 25 per cent) of one of the larger insulae (IX) of the Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester, Hampshire, UK). The fieldwork had taken 18 summers of six-week seasons, the equivalent of over two years of continuous excavation, with teams, including staff, of 130-150 participants. The aim of the project at the outset was to characterise the changing life of the town from origins …
Professor Sheppard Sunderland Frere, Cbe, Fba
Using experimental archaeology and micromorphology to reconstruct timber-framed buildings from Roman Silchester
Characterising the use of urban space
Symbols of Power
Those who study Roman art and religion in Britain will know that there are a relatively small number of pieces in stone and bronze which are regularly used to illustrate arguments on Romanization, provincialism and identity. However, while these objects become familiar through such use, they are, in fact, often little studied as pieces in their own right and the only description of their appearance and context are some fifty or more years old. Re…
Hadrian's Wall
Calleva (Silchester)
An Iron Age oppidum , initially of some 70 acres (32 ha) and defended by earthen ramparts and ditches, Calleva was founded in the late first century BCE and was subsequently developed after the Roman conquest of Britain in the late first century CE into a planned town, the civitas capital of the Atrebates ( see Oppida, Britannia, Roman Empire).
A child's burial in unconsecrated ground in early modern Dorchester, Dorset
Re-examination of a child burial found during excavations in advance of the construction of new offices for Dorset County Council in the north-west quarter of Dorchester in 1937 indicates that it is of early modern, rather than of Roman date, as originally believed at the time of excavation. A possible context is explored for the burial of a child in unconsecrated ground in the 17th century
Assessing the Contribution of Commercial Archaeology to the Study of the Roman Period in England, 1990–2004
This paper identifies the ways in which the enormous upsurge in the volume of commercial archaeology in England since the introduction of PPG 16 in 1990 has affected our knowledge and understanding of Roman Britain. The difficulties in establishing a comprehensive database of interventions are discussed, but overall it is estimated that around 6,600 separate interventions sampled Roman deposits between 1990 and 2004. While many important excavati…
Concentrations of copper, zinc and lead as indicators of hearth usage at the Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester, Hampshire, UK)
The application of microfossils in assessing the provenance of chalk used in the manufacture of Roman mosaics at Silchester
Nero and Britain
The evidence for a major, post-Boudiccan Neronian building campaign in Calleva is set out and discussed and its wider context considered. It is suggested that there was deliberate investment in the civil development of the client kingdom south of the Thames in contrast to the re-establishment of direct military control to the north and in East Anglia where revival of the towns was slow to take off
Silchester Roman Town Insula IX
The development of an urban property in the Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester, Hampshire, England) is traced from the late 1st to the mid-3rd century AD. Three successive periods of building with their associated finds of artefacts and biological remains are described and interpreted with provisional reconstructions of the buildings. Links are provided to a copy of the Integrated Archaeological Database (IADB), archived by the Archaeolo…
An Insular Obsession
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Economic interdependence among urban communities of the Roman Mediterranean
Classical sources hint at the role of trade in the development and maintenance of urban communities with access to the sea. With very little surviving written evidence, the usefulness of the changing ratio of 'imported' to 'local' wares in ceramic assemblages is assessed as a means of gauging the economic interdependence of Roman coastal cities of the Mediterranean. The currently available data are assessed and tested against a number of independ…
Links with the Past
Recent theoretical debate combined with a greater attention to the nature of individual deposits in the archaeological record has focused on the nature of ritual behaviour, its material correlates and its significance as social practice. In southern Britain a particular focus for this debate has been presented by the study of ‘special deposits’ and the structured (ritual) deposition of archaeological deposits from the Iron Age. Cunliffe's review …
Territorial expansion and the Roman Empire
As the first state to control all the lands bordering the Mediterranean, Rome had the possibility of exploiting their subsistence surpluses to serve its political ambitions. The relative cheapness of sea transport allowed that surplus to be collected and redistributed with equal ease to and from any point around the Mediterranean. Although the city of Rome itself was the most important consumer of this resource, it is argued that Roman expansion …
Soil geochemistry and detection of early Roman precious metal and copper alloy working at the Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester, Hampshire, UK)
Assessing the Contribution of Commercial Archaeology to the Study of the Roman Period in England, 1990–2004
This paper identifies the ways in which the enormous upsurge in the volume of commercial archaeology in England since the introduction of PPG 16 in 1990 has affected our knowledge and understanding of Roman Britain. The difficulties in establishing a comprehensive database of interventions are discussed, but overall it is estimated that around 6,600 separate interventions sampled Roman deposits between 1990 and 2004. While many important excavati…
Concentrations of copper, zinc and lead as indicators of hearth usage at the Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester, Hampshire, UK)
To East and West
In the context of the North African littoral Cyrenaica and Tripolitania appear almost as fertile islands, surrounded by desert on three sides and the Mediterranean to the north (Fig. 1). Between Cyrenaica and Egypt the desert runs to the sea, while between Cyrenaica and Tripolitania lies desert which stretches up to the shores of the Gulf of Sirte. Only to the west of Tripolitania is there a thin coastal strip of cultivable land which runs past t…
Characterising the use of urban space
Romano-British Settlement and Industry on the Wetlands of the Severn Estuary
A review of the post-glacial geology and geomorphology of the Severn Estuary provides a context for the description and evaluation of eight sites on the margins of the Severn upstream of the Rivers Avon and Wye where Romano-British occupation debris has been recovered. This evidence provides further confirmation of the extent of the reclamation and settlement of the wetlands of the Severn during the Roman period. In addition, all sites produced c…
Lowbury Hill, Oxon
Following earthwork, geophysical andfield-walking survey, a limited evaluation was carried out by excavation of the enclosure and Anglo-Saxon barrow on Lowbury Hill, Oxon. in 1992. Evidence for prehistoric activity on the hilltop is provided by a few sherds of beaker/collared urn, and a more substantial quantity of late bronze age/early iron age pottery. The combination of the new field evidence and a reappraisal of the excavation and finds made …
Byzantium and Britain
THE RATIOS OF E. and W. Mediterranean pottery among groups of post-Roman imports in western Britain and Ireland are compared with those of contemporary pottery assemblages from Mediterranean sites. It is argued that the British material arrived in ships which had sailed direct from the Aegean region or from Constantinople itself The inspiration for this trade clearly lay in the NE. Mediterranean. Direct contact between the Byzantine world and the…
Excavations on the Sites of the Amphitheatre and Forum-Basilica at Silchester, Hampshire
A research excavation was commenced on the site of the basilica which forms the western side of the forum of Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester, Hants) in IQ80. Its aim is to examine the Late Iron Age and early Roman occupation which, despite extensive Victorian excavations, was preserved beneath the masonry basilica. So far there is evidence of the Iron Age sequence dating back to the last quarter of the first century B.C.; it ends with the construct…
Victorian Excavation Methodology
The excavations of the Roman town of Silchester, Hampshire, undertaken under the auspices of the Society of Antiquaries between 1890 and 1909, are reconsidered in the light of renewed excavation on the site of insula IX, first explored in 1893. The excavation methodology of trial-trenching followed by area excavation of masonry buildings thus located is reviewed alongside the evidence of policy for the recovery and retention of finds. It is estim…
Romano-British Wetland Reclamations at Longney, Gloucestershire, and Evidence for the Early Settlement of the Inner Severn Estuary
By the end of the Roman period, and largely as the result of late Romano-British activity, somewhat over one-half of the tidal wetlands of the inner Severn Estuary between Gloucester and Awre had been embanked and drained. Little reclamation occurred during the medieval period, but early modern-modern times witnessed substantial further activity, leaving scant active salt marsh today. The Romano-British reclamations are recognized on the basis of…
Relevant Beyond the Roman Period
Archaeology has been firmly embedded in the British planning systems for over a quarter of century, and development-led fieldwork is now by far the largest source of new information available to researchers. Custom and practice in the way that such work is conducted has evolved over this time, yet methodological innovation has been surprisingly limited. Using the data gathered in a major survey of the rural settlement of Roman Britain, this paper…
Using experimental archaeology and micromorphology to reconstruct timber-framed buildings from Roman Silchester
The application of microfossils in assessing the provenance of chalk used in the manufacture of Roman mosaics at Silchester
The Roman Invasion of A. D. 43
Modern attempts to investigate the sources of his History2 have raised doubts about the reliability of certain details: in the chapters which concern us the description of the river-battle as lasting into a second day and even the division of the army into three parts before sailing3 have been held to be mere literary topoi. But these suggestions are by no means certain, for each passage is well suited to its context. With one emendation of the t…
An Early Date For Ogham
In the light of dating evidence recovered from new excavation in and around the original findspot, the context, date and provenance of the baluster column with an inscription in ogham, which was recovered in 1893 during the excavations of the Roman town at Silchester, Hampshire, are reconsidered
Nero and Britain
The evidence for a major, post-Boudiccan Neronian building campaign in Calleva is set out and discussed and its wider context considered. It is suggested that there was deliberate investment in the civil development of the client kingdom south of the Thames in contrast to the re-establishment of direct military control to the north and in East Anglia where revival of the towns was slow to take off
In defence of Rome
Unpeeling Pompeii
Pompeii, recovered from under Vesuvius ash, offers a famous 'frozen moment' in archaeological time: a city as it stood at a certain day. Beyond and beneath the dating evidence visible in its standing buildings is to be found a more archaeological chronology
Romano-British and Later Geoarchaeology at Oldbury Flats
A silted-up palaeochannel in the postglacial estuarine alluvium exposed at Oldbury Flats on the south-eastern shore of the Severn Estuary has yielded a considerable variety of Romano-British occupation debris, and constitutes a major primary source for the substantial quantities of previously recorded archaeological material transposed into the present-day intertidal zone. The disposition of the abandoned tidal channels, the pattern of medieval f…
Calleva Atrebatum
Excavation of the basilica of the Roman town of Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum) has produced evidence for two phases of pre-Roman occupation. The earlier, probably dating to the mid-first century BC, consisted of roundhouses and pits. Around 20 BC a rectilinear steet pattern, with building plots at right angles to the streets and rectangular buildings, was laid out; later a palisaded enclosure was built. Imports included amphorae and fine pottery;…
Symbols of Power
Those who study Roman art and religion in Britain will know that there are a relatively small number of pieces in stone and bronze which are regularly used to illustrate arguments on Romanization, provincialism and identity. However, while these objects become familiar through such use, they are, in fact, often little studied as pieces in their own right and the only description of their appearance and context are some fifty or more years old. Re…
The Distribution and Dating of New Forest Pottery
at Sandford,z Rose Hill and Dorchester, Cowley4 and Headington;s the pottery is similar in form, and similar but by no means identical in fabric, to that of the New Forest and so a clearer distinction between the products of the two industries has become necessary. The aim of this article is to show the nature and distribution of the New Forest pottery types and the place of the industry in the development of colour-coated industries in Roman Bri…
Imported Pottery from Germany in Late Roman Britain
With the exception of stamped, red-slipped wares from the Argonne region of France, pottery imported from the Continent into late Roman Britain has received little attention. The object of this paper is to define and describe some types in Britain which appear to have originated in Germany. The vessels were first recognised during preparation of reports on Roman pottery from the Wallbrook, London, and Portchester Castle, Hampshire, and the closes…
Coin Circulation and Mint Activity in the Late Roman Empire
Factors that determined the location of mints and the function and supply of bronze coinage in the Roman Empire during the fourth century A.D. are considered. The survey is based primarily on a comparison of site assemblages which cover the century, although in their absence hoards provide useful comparisons. Aspects of minting activity and coin circulation in both the western and the eastern empire are discussed, but the distribution of the most…
The Silchester ogham stone
A recent re-examination of the architectural and other sculpted stone fragments from Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum) drew attention to the small sandstone column on which is scored an ogham inscription. The commonest materials used for columns, capitals and ornamental sculpture at Silchester are the fine Jurassic limestones of Bath or Portland type. A very few pieces are carved intertiary sandstones or imported marble. This is the pattern for arch…
The Vectis Report
Neutron Activation Analysis of Black‐glazed Pottery From Carthage
Berenice and the Economy of Cyrenaica
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Late Roman Amphorae in the Western Mediterranean
Late Roman Amphorae in the Western Mediterranean: A Typology and Economic Study: The Catalan Evidence. By S. J. Keay." Archaeological Journal, 142(1), p. 398
Excavations on the Sites of the Amphitheatre and Forum-Basilica at Silchester, Hampshire
A research excavation was commenced on the site of the basilica which forms the western side of the forum of Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester, Hants) in IQ80. Its aim is to examine the Late Iron Age and early Roman occupation which, despite extensive Victorian excavations, was preserved beneath the masonry basilica. So far there is evidence of the Iron Age sequence dating back to the last quarter of the first century B.C.; it ends with the construct…
Sheepen
Calleva Atrebatum
Excavation of the basilica of the Roman town of Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum) has produced evidence for two phases of pre-Roman occupation. The earlier, probably dating to the mid-first century BC, consisted of roundhouses and pits. Around 20 BC a rectilinear steet pattern, with building plots at right angles to the streets and rectangular buildings, was laid out; later a palisaded enclosure was built. Imports included amphorae and fine pottery;…
Romano-British Settlement and Industry on the Wetlands of the Severn Estuary
A review of the post-glacial geology and geomorphology of the Severn Estuary provides a context for the description and evaluation of eight sites on the margins of the Severn upstream of the Rivers Avon and Wye where Romano-British occupation debris has been recovered. This evidence provides further confirmation of the extent of the reclamation and settlement of the wetlands of the Severn during the Roman period. In addition, all sites produced c…
Economic interdependence among urban communities of the Roman Mediterranean
Classical sources hint at the role of trade in the development and maintenance of urban communities with access to the sea. With very little surviving written evidence, the usefulness of the changing ratio of 'imported' to 'local' wares in ceramic assemblages is assessed as a means of gauging the economic interdependence of Roman coastal cities of the Mediterranean. The currently available data are assessed and tested against a number of independ…
Baldock
The Roman Port and Fishery of Cosa
To East and West
In the context of the North African littoral Cyrenaica and Tripolitania appear almost as fertile islands, surrounded by desert on three sides and the Mediterranean to the north (Fig. 1). Between Cyrenaica and Egypt the desert runs to the sea, while between Cyrenaica and Tripolitania lies desert which stretches up to the shores of the Gulf of Sirte. Only to the west of Tripolitania is there a thin coastal strip of cultivable land which runs past t…
Byzantium and Britain
THE RATIOS OF E. and W. Mediterranean pottery among groups of post-Roman imports in western Britain and Ireland are compared with those of contemporary pottery assemblages from Mediterranean sites. It is argued that the British material arrived in ships which had sailed direct from the Aegean region or from Constantinople itself The inspiration for this trade clearly lay in the NE. Mediterranean. Direct contact between the Byzantine world and the…
The Landscape of Roman Britain
(1990). The Landscape of Roman Britain: A Review. Landscape History: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 25-31
Puckeridge-Braughing, Herts
(1990). Puckeridge-Braughing, Herts.: The Ermine Street Excavations, 1971–1972. The late iron age and roman settlement. By T. W. Potter and S. D Trow. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 147, No. 1, pp. 443-444
Romano-British Wetland Reclamations at Longney, Gloucestershire, and Evidence for the Early Settlement of the Inner Severn Estuary
By the end of the Roman period, and largely as the result of late Romano-British activity, somewhat over one-half of the tidal wetlands of the inner Severn Estuary between Gloucester and Awre had been embanked and drained. Little reclamation occurred during the medieval period, but early modern-modern times witnessed substantial further activity, leaving scant active salt marsh today. The Romano-British reclamations are recognized on the basis of…
The Romanization of Britain
(1991). The Romanization of Britain: an essay in archaeological interpretation. By M. Millett. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 148, No. 1, pp. 307-309
Romano-British and Later Geoarchaeology at Oldbury Flats
A silted-up palaeochannel in the postglacial estuarine alluvium exposed at Oldbury Flats on the south-eastern shore of the Severn Estuary has yielded a considerable variety of Romano-British occupation debris, and constitutes a major primary source for the substantial quantities of previously recorded archaeological material transposed into the present-day intertidal zone. The disposition of the abandoned tidal channels, the pattern of medieval f…
Territorial expansion and the Roman Empire
As the first state to control all the lands bordering the Mediterranean, Rome had the possibility of exploiting their subsistence surpluses to serve its political ambitions. The relative cheapness of sea transport allowed that surplus to be collected and redistributed with equal ease to and from any point around the Mediterranean. Although the city of Rome itself was the most important consumer of this resource, it is argued that Roman expansion …
Developing Landscapes of Lowland Britain. The Archaeology of the British Gravels
Lowbury Hill, Oxon
Following earthwork, geophysical andfield-walking survey, a limited evaluation was carried out by excavation of the enclosure and Anglo-Saxon barrow on Lowbury Hill, Oxon. in 1992. Evidence for prehistoric activity on the hilltop is provided by a few sherds of beaker/collared urn, and a more substantial quantity of late bronze age/early iron age pottery. The combination of the new field evidence and a reappraisal of the excavation and finds made …
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