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- by Eleanor Casella and +1
  Chris Fowler
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  Social Identity, Material Culture, Case Study

Brooch Use in the Frontier from the 4th-5th Centuries

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Hadrian’s Wall and the Collapse of Roman Frontiers

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The Latest Roman Coin from Hadrian’s Wall: A small 5th Century Purse Group

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Late Roman frontier communities in north Britain: a theoretical context for the ‘end’ of Hadrian’s Wall

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Finds from the Frontier: Material Culture in the 4th-5th Centuries

Finds from the Frontier brings together papers given at a conference held at Newcastle upon Tyne in 2008. Its aim is to elucidate the life of the 4th-century limitanei of Britain through their material culture. The papers consider whether the excavated artefacts justify the traditional implication that the period is one of declining standards and largely come to the conclusion that, on the contrary, the period was rich in artefacts that have much to tell us about the late frontier.

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Debating Late Antiquity in Britain, AD 300-700

The conference ‘Debating Late Antiquity in Britain AD300-700’ (held at the University of York in June 2003) had three principal areas of interest – What was the fate of Roman Britain? To what extent did Anglo-Saxon material, so well known in the cemeteries of eastern England, reflect a violent immigration from the continent on a large scale? What was the fate of the ‘British’ population in the West? The 13 papers published from the conference discuss these questions. (1) Preliminary perspectives (Rob Collins and James Gerrard); (2) The case for the Dark Ages (Neil Faulkner); (3) Remaining Roman in Britain, AD 300-700: The evidence of portable art (Martin Henig) (4) Coast and countryside in ‘Late Antique’ southwest England, ca. AD 400-600 (Sam Turner); (5) A landscape in transition? Palaeoenvironmental evidence for the end of the ‘Romano-British’ period in southwest England (Ralph Fyfe and Stephen Rippon); (6) The environs of South Cadbury in the Late Antique and Early Medieval periods (John Davey); (7) Roman estates to English parishes? The legacy of Desmond Bonney reconsidered (Simon Draper); (8) How late is late? Pottery and the fifth century in southwest Britain (James Gerrard); (9) Burial in western Britain, AD 400-800: Late Antique or Early Medieval (David Petts); (10) Artefacts in Early Medieval graves: A new perspective (Howard Williams); (11) Living amongst the dead: From Roman cemetery to post-Roman monastic settlement at Poundbury (Christopher Sparey-Green); (12) Religious heresy and political dissent in Late Antiquity: A comparison between Syria and Britain (Daniel Hull); (13) Before ‘the End’: Hadrian’s Wall in the fourth century and after (Rob Collins).

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- by James Gerrard and +1
  Rob Collins
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  Landscape Archaeology, Byzantine Studies, Late Antiquity, Roman Britain

Debating Late Antiquity in Britain AD300-700

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- by Rob Collins and +1
  James Gerrard
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  Archaeology, Early medieval Britain (Archaeology), Roman Britain

Hadrian’s Wall and the End of Empire: The Roman Frontier in the 4th and 5th Centuries (ToC only)

There is no synthetic or comprehensive treatment of any late Roman frontier in the English language to date, despite the political and economic significance of the frontiers in the late antique period. Examining Hadrian’s Wall and the Roman frontier of northern England from the fourth century into the Early Medieval period, this book investigates a late frontier in transition from an imperial border zone to incorporation into Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, using both archaeological and documentary evidence. With an emphasis on the late Roman occupation and Roman military, it places the frontier in the broader imperial context.

In contrast to other works, Hadrian’s Wall and the End of Empire challenges existing ideas of decline, collapse, and transformation in the Roman period, as well as its impact on local frontier communities. Author Rob Collins analyzes in detail the limitanei, the frontier soldiers of the late empire essential for the successful maintenance of the frontiers, and the relationship between imperial authorities and local frontier dynamics. Finally, the impact of the end of the Roman period in Britain is assessed, as well as the influence that the frontier had on the development of the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria.