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The Rural Settlement of Roman
England: from regional perspectives
to national synthesis: Summing up
Professor Michael Fulford
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Creation of regional
landscapes for analysis
Eight new regions
created for the
purposes of broadly
assessing rural
settlement regionality
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Creation of regional
landscapes for analysis
New regions ‘created’
using project data,
Natural England
regions & Welsh
topography
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200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
M-LIA LIA AD50 -
100
AD100 -
150
AD150 -
200
AD200 -
250
AD250 -
300
AD300 -
350
AD350 -
400
AD 400+
Rural farming settlements in use over time (no.
settlements)
villas
Farms (all)
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0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
LIA (1st C BC-mid
1st C AD)
LIA/ER (1st C
BC/AD)
ER (1st-2ndC AD) MR (2nd-3rdC
AD)
LR (3rd-4thC AD)
Me
an
pe
rce
nta
ge
cattle >100NISP cattle >200NISP cattle >400NISP
ovicaprid >100NISP ovicaprid >200NISP ovicaprid >400NISP
pig >100NISP pig >200NISP pig >400NISP
National trends in livestock frequency through time
• Relative frequency of cattle and
sheep/goats remains similar from
the late Iron Age until the 2ndC AD
• Cattle remains become significantly
more common from the 2ndC AD
through to the 4thC AD
No. assemblages >100 NISP = 689
No. assemblages >200 NISP = 516
No. assemblages >400 NISP = 334
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47.2%
23.3%
38.9%
48.9%
41.1%
56.7%
52.2%
58.9%
40.0%
36.1%
46.1%
40.6%
58.3%
50.6%
67.2%
76.7%
91.7%
66.7%
59.4%
58.9%
63.3%
29.2%
18.8%
29.2%
39.6%
35.4%
43.8%
43.8%
54.2%
31.3%
31.3%
41.7%
39.6%
52.1%
50.0%
66.7%
79.2%
91.7%
77.1%
72.9%
68.8%
72.9%
24.9%
10.8%
22.3%
26.0%
29.0%
37.2%
29.7%
37.9%
31.2%
26.4%
39.8%
29.7%
49.1%
40.1%
56.1%
58.4%
85.9%
39.8%
50.2%
43.5%
58.7%
5.8%
1.8%
5.4%
11.1%
7.0%
17.1%
20.4%
15.9%
10.5%
10.4%
10.6%
13.6%
17.2%
15.5%
22.3%
39.3%
47.6%
48.7%
23.6%
33.1%
37.1%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Religion
Lighting
Writing
Military/Weaponry
Recreation
Other dress
Hobnails
Toilet/cosmetics
Transport
Weighing
Security
Agriculture
Hairpins
Finger rings
Household
Brooches
Coins
Food
Bracelets
Textiles
Tools
Roadside Settlements/Vici (180 sites)
Villages (48 sites)
Villas (269 sites)
Farms (1312 sites)
Presence/absence of 21
classes of object across
rural domestic sites
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29.0%
10.8%
24.9%
39.8%
22.3%
49.1%
31.2%
56.1%
40.1%
37.9%
85.9%
29.7%
26.4%
26.0%
50.2%
37.2%
58.4%
58.7%
43.5%
29.7%
39.8%
8.5%
6.5%
15.0%
20.5%
12.0%
32.5%
21.5%
39.5%
36.0%
38.0%
72.5%
27.0%
27.5%
20.0%
47.0%
34.0%
65.5%
59.5%
49.0%
47.0%
71.0%
8.5%
1.2%
2.6%
8.2%
4.7%
11.1%
10.5%
20.5%
11.7%
9.4%
35.7%
11.7%
7.6%
14.0%
20.8%
17.5%
33.6%
42.4%
38.6%
14.3%
50.9%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Recreation
Lighting
Religion
Security
Writing
Hairpins
Transport
Household
Finger rings
Toilet/cosmetics
Coins
Agriculture
Weighing
Military/Weaponry
Bracelets
Other dress
Brooches
Tools
Textiles
Hobnails
Food
Villas (269 sites)
Complex Farms (200 sites)
Enclosed Farms (342 sites)
Presence/absence of
21 classes of object
across villas and
farms
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All excavated and
recorded Roman
rural settlements up
to end 2014
2523 individual
settlements
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Programme to April 2017
• 4th Nov 2015: Rural settlement in Roman Wales Conference, Cardiff
• Production of five monographs:
– Vol. 1: A Geography of Rural Settlement in Roman Britain
– Vol. 2: The Rural Economy of Roman Britain: Agriculture, Industry, Transport and Markets
– Vol. 3: The Peoples of the Romano-British Countryside
– Vol. 4: Ritual and Religion in the Romano-British Countryside
– Vol. 5: The Small Towns of Roman Britain
• Journal paper on methodological aspects of the project
• Final website Launch, end 2016
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Feedback
April 2015 – December 2016
Project online resource:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5284/1030449