Examines the causes of floods, their effects on the environment and people's lives, their benefits, and the ways in which they can be predicted, prevented, or contained.

Floods (Restless Planet)

Children's Books

Maslin, Mark

Durham, Emma

Science, Nature & How It Works

Heinemann/Raintree

The late Iron Age oppidum of Calleva underlies the Roman town at Silchester. Excavation (1997-2014) of a large area (0.3ha) of Insula IX revealed evidence of a rectilinear, NE/SW-NW/SE-oriented layout of the interior of the oppidum, dating from 20/10BC, with the remains of the larger part of one compound separated from its neighbors by fenced trackways. Within the compound was a large, 47.5m long hall surrounded by smaller, rectangular buildings associated with groups of rubbish pits. A concluding discussion characterizes the oppidum, integrating and contextualizing a series of major contributions reporting the pre-conquest finds and environmental evidence with the structural story.Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgementsPrefaceSECTION 1 – THE SITEChapter 1. Introduction (Michael Fulford)Chapter 2. The excavation (Michael Fulford, Amanda Clarke and Nicholas Pankhurst)SECTION 2 – THE FINDSChapter 3. Introduction and the prehistoric finds (Michael Fulford, Richard Bradley, Emma Durham)Chapter 4. The Iron Age coins (Colin Haselgrove)Chapter 5. The brooches (Nina Crummy)Chapter 6. The small finds (Nina Crummy)Chapter 7. The glass (Hilary Cool)Chapter 8. The pottery (Jane Timby, Joanna Bird)Chapter 9. The pre-conquest arretine wares (Joanna Bird)Chapter 10. Organic residue analysis of ceramic vessels (A.C. Colonese, A. Lucquin and O.E. Craig)Chapter 11. The querns (Emma Durham)Chapter 12. Other ceramics (Jane Timby)Chapter 13. The metalworking (John Allen)Chapter 14. The coin moulds (John Allen)SECTION 3 – ENVIRONMENTAL EVIDENCEChapter 15. The animal bone (Claire Ingrem, Kate Clark)Chapter 16. The insects (Mark Robinson)Chapter 17. The charred and waterlogged plant remains (Lisa Lodwick)Chapter 18. Charcoal and waterlogged wood (Catherine Barnett)Chapter 19. The pollen (Alex Brown)Chapter 20. The phytoliths (Sarah Elliott)Chapter 21. Radiocarbon dating (Catherine Barnett)Chapter 22. The geochemistry (Samantha Cook)Chapter 23. The micromorphology (Rowena Banerjea)SECTION 4 – DISCUSSIONChapter 24. (Michael Fulford)Appendix 1. The small finds (Nina Crummy)Appendix 2. The pottery (Jane Timby)Appendix 3. The Arretine stamps (Joanna Bird)Appendix 4. The querns (Emma Durham)Appendix 5. The animal bone (Claire Ingrem)Appendix 6. The plant remains (Lisa Lodwick)Appendix 7. The wood and charcoal (Catherine Barnett)Appendix 8. The geochemistry (Samantha Cook)BibliographyIndex

Late Iron Age Calleva: The Pre-Conquest Occupation at Silchester Insula IX: Volume 3 - Silchester Roman Town: The Insula IX Town Life Project (Britannia Monographs)

History

Clarke, Amanda

Pankhurst, Nicholas

Fulford, PRof. Michael

Ancient Civilizations

Roman Society Publications

Ten years in the planning and with contributions by 27 expert authors, this is a comprehensive record of archaeological research at Chedworth Roman Villa, Gloucestershire (now in the care of the National Trust), from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries.\nThe volume brings together a large body of new, contextualized information about the villa including: a history of work at Chedworth from the 1860s to the present; a detailed fabric survey of the extant remains; description and analysis of the Roman structural remains; description and analysis of the decorative elements (e.g. mosaics, sculpture) and finds (e.g. coins, Roman artifacts, glass, pottery, and bones); discussion of the development of the villa and its place in the landscape; the consolidation and display of the villa from its discovery in 1864 to the present. The volume is well illustrated with drawings and photos ranging in date from the late 1800s to the present.\nThe volume will appeal to all with an interest in Roman Britain, and Roman villas in particular, and in the antiquarians who first discovered and investigated them.\nTable of Contents\nCHAPTER 1. A HISTORY OF WORK AT AND PUBLICATION ON CHEDWORTH 
1864: The Villa Uncovered 
1864–1924: Conservation and Publication 
1924–57: The Early National Trust Years 
1957–65: Sir Ian Richmond 
1966–2010: Targeting Problems\nCHAPTER 2. FABRIC SURVEY AND ANALYSIS (Jason Wood) 
Introduction 
Description and Analysis 
South range 
West range 
West baths 
Room 17: nymphaeum 
North baths and north range 
Cross gallery 
Discussion 
Roman 
Victorian 
First half of twentieth century 
Second half of twentieth century\nCHAPTER 3. THE ROMAN STRUCTURAL REMAINS 
Introduction 
The South Range 
The West Range 
The Nymphaeum (Room 17) 
The North Range 
The Cross Gallery 
The Areas Around the Main Villa Buildings 
Water Management 
Appendix 
Excavations at Chedworth Roman Villa, 1977 (Ron Shoesmith and Tim Copeland) 
Excavations at Chedworth Roman Villa by the University of Sheffield 2000–2002 (Maureen Carroll)\nCHAPTER 4. THE DECORATIVE ELEMENTS AND FINDS 
Introduction 
The Mosaics (S.R. Cosh) 
The Sculptured Stone (Martin Henig) 
The Architectural Stone (Kevin Hayward) 
The Marble (Susan Walker) 
Plaster and Mortar (Emma Durham with J.R.L. Allen) 
Ceramic Building Material (Peter Warry) 
The Worked Flint (Richard Bradley) 
Roman Small Finds (Emma Durham with Martin Henig) 
Post-Roman Finds (Emma Durham) 
The Vessel Glass (Emma Durham) 
The Window Glass (Emma Durham) 
Reports Prepared by Wessex Archaeology 
The coins (Nicholas Cooke) 
Metalwork (Grace Perpetua Jones with Phil Andrews and Martin Henig) 
Worked bone (Lorraine Mepham) 
Shale/jet (Lorraine Mepham) 
Glass (Lorraine Mepham) 
Pottery (Rachael Seager Smith) 
Ceramic building material (Rachael Seager Smith) 
Animal bone (R. Billson) 
Overview of the Coins (Simon Esmonde Cleary) 
Overview of the Small Finds (Emma Durham) 
Overview of the Pottery (Jane Timby with Joanna Bird) 
The Infant Burials (Anna Rohnbogner) 
Overview of the Animal Remains (Claire Ingrem)\nCHAPTER 5. CHEDWORTH ROMAN VILLA 
Pre-Roman Activity 
The Origins and Structural Development of the Villa 
The ‘Developed Villa’ 
Decline and Fall: The End of the Villa and After\nCHAPTER 6. CHEDWORTH, THE COTSWOLDS AND VILLA CULTURE 
Landscapes of Production and Prestige 
Chedworth and Villas in the Locality 
Chedworth and Rich Villas in the Cotswolds and Britain 
Chedworth and Late Roman Aristocratic Behaviour\nCHAPTER 7. REIMAGINING THE VILLA SINCE 1864 
Farrer, Eldon and the Consolidation and Display of the Villa 1864–1870 
Landscape Management 1864–2010 (Rupert Goulding) 
Torpor to the Trust: the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 
After World War II: Half a Century of Exploration and Presentation 
Reconstructions of the Villa 
The Development of the Heritage Lottery Fund Bids and the New Cover-Building, 1994–2012 (Julie Reynolds) 
‘The Honoured Guest’: Interpreting the Chedworth Roman Villa to Modern Visitors (Peter Salway)\nBibliography 
Index

Chedworth Roman Villa: Excavations and Re-imaginings from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries (Britannia Monographs)

Wood, Jason

Cleary, Professor Simon Esmonde

Sark came briefly to prominence in 1719 when the Sark hoard was found - a pot containing Gaulish coins and embossed silver plaques. It was brought to England and disappeared. The Archaeological Survey of Sark began in 2004 with a view to studying the island in the context of Atlantic maritime networks to explore the themes of remoteness and connectivity. Fieldwork organized through the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford has been carried out annually and continues. A complete gazetteer of nearly 100 sites has been compiled together with a full listing of all the artefacts recovered. Notable are the large number of Neolithic stone axes, many made from the local dolerite, and the widespread use of local serpentine to make amulets Sark: a sacred island contains full reports on eight archaeological excavations including details of an early Neolithic settlement, a middle Neolithic ritual site, a Beaker cist burial a Mid-Late Bronze Age settlement, a Gallo-Roman ritual site (from which the Sark hoard came) and an early Medieval farm. Results of surveys of a Dark Age monastery and 16th century French fortifications are also given.

Sark: A Sacred Island?: Volume 1 - Fieldwork and excavations 2004-2017 (Oxford University School of Archaeology Monographs)

Politics & Social Sciences

CUNLIFFE, Barry

Archaeology

Oxford University School of Archaeology

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