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  title info:
    title: London's Roman tools
    sub title: craft, agriculture and experience in an ancient city
  name:
    name part: Humphreys, Owen
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 492 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 30 cm.
  abstract: London was the administrative center of Roman Britain, and its largest city. After centuries of excavation, Londinium is one of the best understood cities in the Empire. London is also home to one of the most exceptional collections of craft and agricultural tools in the Roman world. London's Roman Tools moves beyond typological analysis to show how Roman artefacts can illuminate the lives of ordinary people. Using a framework of practice theory, it explores the lives of Roman craft and agricultural workers in London, a diverse and changing group which has rarely been examined previously. Also provided is an illustrated catalogue of 837 Roman tools from London. Many are exceptionally well preserved, some are unknown elsewhere and most have not previously been published. A detailed typological discussion synthesises decades of developments in French and German literature with new insights from the London material.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction : artefacts at work -- 2. London's Roman tools -- 3. Manufacture : style, provenance and practice -- 4. Woodwork -- 5. Agriculture, horticulture and gardening -- 6. Metalwork -- 7. Leatherwork -- 8. Masonry and stonework -- 9. Pottery-making -- 10. Animal husbandry -- 11. Bone-, antler-, ivory- and horn-working -- 12. Glassworking -- 13. Conclusions, reflections and future directions -- 14. Typology.
  note: Owen Humphreys.
  note: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Reading, 2018) under title: Craft, industry and agriculture in a Roman city.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 468-492).
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  subject:
    topic: Tools
    geographic: England
    geographic: London
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    geographic: London (England)
    topic: Antiquities, Roman
  subject:
    topic: Artisans
    geographic: England
    geographic: London
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: Agricultural laborers
    geographic: England
    geographic: London
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: Tools
    geographic: England
    geographic: London
    genre: Catalogs
  subject:
    geographic: London (England)
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: Tools
    geographic: Rome
    genre: Catalogs
  subject:
    topic: Artisans
    geographic: Rome
  subject:
    topic: Agricultural laborers
    geographic: Rome
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D
  classification: 936.2104
  related item:
    title info:
      title: BAR British series. v. 3
      part name: Archaeology of Roman Britain
  related item:
    title info:
      title: BAR British series ; 663
  identifier: 9781407357386
  identifier: 1407357387
  identifier: 9781407357393
  identifier: 1407357395
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 210219
    record change date: 20220105155119.0
    record identifier: in00004361808