Debating late antiquity in Britain AD 300-700 /

The conference 'Debating Late Antiquity in Britain AD300-700' (University of York 2003) had three areas of interest - What was the fate of Roman Britain? To what extent did Anglo-Saxon material reflect a violent immigration from the continent on a large scale? What was the fate of the ...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Debating late antiquity in Britain AD 300-700 York, England
Other Authors: Collins, Rob, 1977-, Gerrard, James
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, England : Archaeopress, ©2004.
Series:BAR British series ; 365.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary perspectives / Rob Collins and James Gerrard)
  • The case for the Dark Ages / Neil Faulkner)
  • Remaining Roman in Britain, AD 300-700: The evidence of portable art / Martin Henig
  • Coast and countryside in 'Late Antique' southwest England, ca. AD 400-600 / Sam Turner
  • A landscape in transition? Palaeoenvironmental evidence for the end of the 'Romano-British' period in southwest England / Ralph Fyfe and Stephen Rippon
  • The environs of South Cadbury in the Late Antique and Early Medieval periods / John Davey
  • Roman estates to English parishes? The legacy of Desmond Bonney reconsidered / Simon Draper
  • How late is late? Pottery and the fifth century in southwest Britain / James Gerrard
  • Burial in western Britain, AD 400-800: Late Antique or Early Medieval / David Petts
  • Artefacts in Early Medieval graves: A new perspective / Howard Williams
  • Living amongst the dead: From Roman cemetery to post-Roman monastic settlement at Poundbury / Christopher Sparey-Green
  • Religious heresy and political dissent in Late Antiquity: A comparison between Syria and Britain / Daniel Hull)
  • Before 'the End': Hadrian's Wall in the fourth century and after / Rob Collins.