Roman Society Publications

The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies – The Roman Society – was founded in 1910 as the sister society to the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. The Roman Society is the leading organisation in the United Kingdom for those interested in the study of Rome and the Roman Empire. Its scope is wide, covering Roman history, archaeology, literature and art down to about A.D. 700. It has a broadly based membership, drawn from over forty countries and from all ages and walks of life.The Roman Society publishes two monograph series, Journal of Roman Studies Monographs and Britannia Monographs.

Silchester Insula IX Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 566
ISBN: 9780907764519
Pub Date: 10 Apr 2024
Series: Britannia Monographs
Illustrations: 260 figs (colour)
Description:
Silchester (Calleva) experienced major disruption in the late first century A.D. as the Iron Age oppidum was transformed into the Roman city responsible for the administration of the civitas of the Atrebates.
The Emperor Nero's Pottery and Tilery at Little London, Pamber, by Silchester, Hampshire Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9780907764502
Pub Date: 28 Oct 2022
Series: Britannia Monographs
Illustrations: 149
Description:
Previously suspected on the basis of a tile stamped with the name and titles of the emperor Nero found alongside other brick and tile in the ploughsoil, excavation of two tile kilns at Little London near Silchester, Hampshire confirmed production during the reign of Nero. In addition to the manufacture of standard bricks and roofing materials, the kilns produced the more specialist materials required for building bath-houses. Work on the fabrics and distinctive, roller-stamped flue-tiles shows that products reached a wide variety of destinations between Cirencester, some 100 km to the north-west, and Chichester, on the south coast, though Silchester appears to have been the main market and is the only location where Nero-stamped tile has so far been found.
Chedworth Roman Villa Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 626
ISBN: 9780907764496
Pub Date: 19 May 2022
Series: Britannia Monographs
Illustrations: 335
Description:
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. The volume brings together a large body of new, contextualised 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.
Silchester Insula IX: The Claudio-Neronian Occupation of the Iron Age Oppidum Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 700
ISBN: 9780907764472
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2020
Series: Britannia Monographs
Illustrations: 322
Description:
How did a major nucleated settlement respond to the Roman conquest? Occupation of Silchester (Calleva) after the Roman invasion of south-east Britain in A.D.
Late Iron Age Calleva Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 480
ISBN: 9780907764458
Pub Date: 31 Jul 2018
Series: Britannia Monographs
Illustrations: 171
Description:
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 neighbours by fenced trackways.
Silchester: Changing Visions of a Roman Town Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
ISBN: 9780907764427
Pub Date: 31 Jul 2016
Series: Britannia Monographs
Illustrations: 195
Description:
This volume draws together for the first time all the fieldwork known to have taken place from the earliest located trenches in the 1720s up until the modern campaigns of Fulford. It integrates this work with a new geophysical survey of 217ha to provide a new overarching narrative for the town. The volume starts with a historiography of work on the city from earliest antiquarian investigations.
RRP: £55.00
A Late Roman Town House and its Environs Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 436
ISBN: 9780907764397
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2014
Series: Britannia Monographs
Illustrations: 214
Description:
This report publishes the 1937–8 excavations in Colliton Park, Dorchester, Dorset, which revealed one of the best preserved late Roman town houses so far discovered in Roman Britain. Extensively decorated with mosaics, the building has recently been re-displayed in a new cover building by Dorset County Council. In addition to the town house and its mosaics, the report publishes the surrounding buildings in the north-west quarter of the town, also mostly of late Roman date, and associated occupation along with an extensive collection of artefacts, including outstanding finds of coins, glass, iron and Kimmeridge shale.
RRP: £36.00
Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua Vol. XI Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 399
ISBN: 9780907764380
Pub Date: 11 Oct 2013
Series: JRS Monograph
Description:
Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua XI: Monuments from Phrygia and Lykaonia is a corpus of 387 Greek and Latin inscriptions and other ancient and medieval monuments from inner Anatolia (Phrygia, Lykaonia, and south-western Galatia). Most of these monuments were recorded by William Calder and Michael Ballance in annual expeditions to Asia Minor between 1954 and 1957. The results of these expeditions were never published, and around three-quarters of the monuments in the volume are published here for the first time.
RRP: £30.00
Silchester Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 544
ISBN: 9780907764373
Pub Date: 15 Mar 2011
Series: Britannia Monographs
Description:
Characterising urban life, City in Transition is the second volume reporting on the archaeology of the continuing excavation of Silchester Insula IX, taking the story down to the early 2nd century. In describing the evidence for the occupation of the 2nd and 3rd centuries it follows on from Life and Labour in Late Roman Silchester (2006), which published the late Roman occupation. Geochemical and micromorphological analyses inform the interpretation of the use of space within buildings and, together with the study of an abundant material culture and environmental record, provide a rich characterisation of the houses and their occupants.
RRP: £75.00
The Latin Alexander Trallianus Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9780907764328
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2006
Series: JRS Monograph
Illustrations: 12 pls.
Description:
The present work offers an extensive introduction to the text and transmission of the ancient Latin version of the medical works "Therapeutica" and "On Fevers" of the great sixth-century Greek doctor Alexander of Tralles. The importance of the Latin Alexander in medieval medicine in the West is seen in the richness of both mainstream and secondary, excerpting manuscript-traditions. The tradition is such that the reconstructed Latin text promises to be a much more important witness to the Greek text than the Greek is to the Latin, and of course a reliable edition is a prerequisite for any systematic work on questions such as the provenance of the translation and the Latinity of the translator(s).
RRP: £65.00

The Roman Cemetery at Brougham, Cumbria

Excavations 1966-67
Format: Paperback
Pages: 542
ISBN: 9780907764311
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2004
Series: Britannia Monographs
Illustrations: 349 illus, CD-ROM
Description:
Excavations to the east of the fort and vicus of Brougham, in 1966 and 1967, the results of which have only recently been evaluated, uncovered a cemetery that was in use during the 3rd century. A population of all ages were buried in the cemetery, cremated along with their grave goods, and intered in urns accompanied by other ceramic and glass vessels. This substantial report examines and catalogues the graves and other features before discussing the evidence of pyres and biers, the animal bone, the vessels, the personal ornaments and other equipment, the tombstones and the inscribed stones.
Fosse Lane, Shepton Mallet 1990 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 348
ISBN: 9780907764274
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2001
Series: Britannia Monographs
Illustrations: 81 figs, 24 plates
Description:
A detailed excavation report on the Shipton Mallet site excavated on the edge of the Mendip Hills in 1990. This presentation and interpretation of the information recorded by the Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit reveals an important Romano-British roadside settlement that grew up towards the end of the 1st century AD, developed during the 2nd to 4th century AD, going into decline in the 5th century. This report looks at the sequence of the site, its buildings, structures, burials, its dating sequence, function and status as a settlement, trade and its regional context.
RRP: £47.00
Longthorpe II Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 206
ISBN: 9780907764083
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1987
Series: Britannia Monographs
Illustrations: 27 b/w pls, 48 figs, tbs
Description:
This volume describes the pottery-making depot attached to the pre-Flavian vexillation fortress of Longthorpe near Peterborough and and throws light on the problems of supply of the Roman army during the conquest campaigns. It contains a detailed report on excavations at a group of sites lying east and south-east of the Roman fortress of Longthorpe, Cambridgeshire. A second section reports on the finds from the excavations.
RRP: £15.75