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 on site, which, in the case of products from Little London and pre-Flavian Minety (Wiltshire), travelled distances of up to 100 km. Redating implies more extensive public and private building in town and country south and east of the Fosse Way before the Flavian period than has previously been envisaged. While private building included the construction of bath-houses, heated rooms and the provision of roofing materials, public building, we suggest, provided tabernas et praetoria along the principal roads of the province. In the private sphere such building provides a possible context for Dio Cassius’ mention of the recall and confiscation of large loans made to Britons before the Boudican rebellion. Finally, consideration of fabric needs to be added to the criteria for retaining ceramic building material in excavation archives

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• Heating Londinium

  Open Access•Han Li•Britannia•2025

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• Hadrian and Britain

  Open Access•Michael Fulford•Britannia•2022

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• Roman Silchester and beyond

  Open Access•Neil Holbrook•Antiquity•2025

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• The Origin of Roman London

  Open Access•Lacey Wallace, Lacey M Wallace•Origin of Roman London•2014

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• Verulamium Excavations, V ol. I. (R eports of the R esearch C ommittee of the S ociety of A ntiquaries of L ondon , No. XXVIII.) By S heppard F rere

  Alan Mcwhirr, A D McWhirr•Archaeological Journal•1972

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• Londinium

  Richard Hingley•Londinium•2018

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• Cursus Publicus

  E W Black•Cursus publicus•1995

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• A Corpus of Relief-Patterned Tiles in Roman Britain

  Alan Mcwhirr, Alan D McWhirr et al.•Britannia•1998

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• A new vaulting technique for early baths in Sussex

  Open Access•Lynne C Lancaster•Journal of Roman Archaeology•2012

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• Nero and Britain

  Open Access•Michael Fulford•Britannia•2008

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• Box Flue-Tiles in Britannia

  E W Black•Archaeological Journal•1996

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• The Dating of Relief‐patterned Flue‐tiles

  Open Access•E W Black•Oxford Journal of Archaeology•1985

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• The Date of the Temple of Sulis Minerva at Bath

  T F C Blagg•Britannia•1979

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• Rural Settlement in Roman Britain

  Mark Corney, Richard Hingley•Britannia•1990

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