Social Dynamics on the Northern Frontier of Roman Britain

McCarthy, Michael

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0092.2005.00224.x

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“…Many authors (e.g. Burnham and Wacher , 54; McCarthy , 64) have suggested that Carlisle received recognition and civitas status in the later second or third century, but there is little reason to think that this necessarily involved any greater role for the majority of the local rural population than it had before. If the bulk of the population of Carlisle and the vici was still dominated by the wider military community of retired veterans, relatives of soldiers, ex‐slaves and traders, then ‘civic’ authority still largely lay within the hands of a distinct community with uncertain and possibly negative relations with the wider populace.…”

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“…) but recent years have seen a gradual increase in excavated evidence, particularly from the south of the region, and it is at least possible to sketch out models for our emerging understanding of the period (e.g. Nevell 1999; 2004; Matthews 1999; 2002; Cowell and Philpott ; McCarthy ). Nevell (1999; 2004) has noted that the major hillforts of the region had fallen out of use by the end of the Middle Iron Age and that settlement in the years before the Roman conquest largely took the form of small enclosures in low‐lying locations.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Rogers ; Strickland ; Wild ; Shotter ; Breeze and Dobson ) and further supports the view that there was little by way of a pre‐existing framework of recognized central places, the control of which might have influenced the location of military installations in the region. At none of the largest military settlements at Chester, Carlisle or just outside the region at Corbridge, for example, is there any evidence of significant Late Iron Age occupation (Mason ; McCarthy , 59).…”

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Roman Urbanism: A View from the Countryside

Taylor

2013

Oxford J Archaeology

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Summary The towns of Roman Britain have been subject to a long tradition of empirical research and discussion, but far less attention has been paid to the landscape context in which they developed. This paper considers the implications of this caveat for our understanding of Roman urbanism and suggests that most previous approaches have internalized the study of towns as social institutions and have failed to give due weight to the role of local rural agency in influencing the character of urban development. In so doing, it is suggested that the potential role of other important and competing nodes of economic, political and religious life, such as forts, fortresses, vici and small towns as well as rural sanctuaries and other settlements, is also not given due consideration in discussing the distinctive character of urbanism in Roman Britain.

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Roman Urbanism: A View from the Countryside

Taylor

2013

Oxford J Archaeology

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“…Many have introduced evidence that Mediterranean culture was substantially or equally impacted by the cultures of Celts, Celtiberians, Germans, and Britons. Following a trend seen in general archaeological theory (e.g., Lightfoot and Martinez 1995;Schortman and Urban 1992), Romans were especially influenced by outsiders at frontier locations such as trade or military outposts far away from core regions (Cabrera 1998;Carroll 2001;Freeman 1993;Kurchin 1995;McCarthy 2005;Millett 1990a, b), since their everyday needs (including sexual encounters) would have been drawn from local contexts (Allison 2006);Wells' (2005) review article addresses this on the Roman Danube frontier. That the individual identities of Roman soldiers, drawn from all over the empire, from Scotland to Syria, appear to have often been in contrast to their identities as state representatives is a condition recently explicated through archaeology and inscriptions (Hope 2003).…”

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Unity and Diversity in the European Iron Age: Out of the Mists, Some Clarity?

Thurston

2009

J Archaeol Res

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While some researchers continue to focus fruitfully on traditional issues, in recent years new perspectives, some strongly revisionist, have developed within European Iron Age archaeology, moving it from a long-static state into a rapidly changing milieu. Studies of colonialism, imperialism, and interaction have undergone sequential shifts into new territory, while topics related to sacred activity, political apparatuses, and the ruler-subject relationship have undergone substantial reworking. Perspectives absent from earlier literature have emerged: gender, age, ethnicity, and identity, and interpretations employing theories of practice, agency, landscape, and embodiment have emerged, mirroring broader disciplinary shifts. An overarching trend sees Iron Age Europe as a series of interactive societies with both broad similarities and sharp regional, even local, differences, moving through time and ever-changing relationships, influences, and trajectories. The collision of traditional and revisionist scholarship has produced debate, some heated, but has improved and invigorated the field.

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“…They are, as it were, the mortar that binds people together and enables society to function. The issue of dependence is one that has occupied the thoughts of sociologists from the days of Marx and Durkheim onwards, but it is also one of the key underlying principles of Elias's work (Mennell and Goudsblom 1998, 39; Goudsblom 1977, 6–8).…”

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confidence: 99%