Lyde Green Roman Villa, Emersons Green, South Gloucestershire
Edited by Matthew S. Hobson Edited by Richard Newman
Paperback (Published)
(November 2021)
ISBN: 9781803270463
8.07 x 11.46 inches
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The Roman villa at Lyde Green was excavated between mid-2012 and mid-2013 along with its surroundings and antecedent settlement. The results of the stratigraphic analysis are given here, along with specialist reports on the human remains, pottery (including thin sections), ceramic building material, small finds, coinage and iron-work
Lyde Green Roman Villa, Emersons Green, South Gloucestershire was excavated between mid-2012 and mid-2013 along with its surroundings and antecedent settlement. The excavations took place as part of the Emersons Green East Development Area, funded through the mechanism of commercial archaeology by Gardiner & Theobald LLP. The results of the stratigraphic analysis are given here along with specialist reports on the human remains, pottery (including thin sections), ceramic building material, small finds, coinage and iron-working waste. Six open-area excavations allowed the archaeologists the rare opportunity to trace a substantial part of the site’s layout. Three ancillary buildings within the villa compound, including a bathhouse, were excavated. Evidence of advanced water management was uncovered in the form of lead piping, ceramic drain tiles and an enigmatic stone structure built into a canalised spring line. The villa’s economy included stock raising, crop processing and iron and textile production. The settlement appears to have originated in the mid-1st century AD, or slightly earlier.
Editors' foreword Chapter 1 Introduction - Richard Newman, Matthew S. Hobson, and Damion Churchill Chapter 2: Research objectives, methodologies and summary of results - Richard Newman, Matthew S. Hobson, and Damion Churchill Chapter 3: The development of the landscape before the 1st millennium AD - Richard Newman and Robert Young with contributions by Adrian Bailey, Kimberley Colman, Lynne Gardiner, David Jackson, Mike McElligott and Megan Stoakley Chapter 4: Dating the origins of the rural settlement at Lyde Green: a Late Iron Age enclosure system? - Richard Newman and Matthew S. Hobson with contributions by Lynne Gardiner, Mike McElligott, Ed McSloy and Megan Stoakley Chapter 5: The Romano-British period and the villa estate - Mike McElligott, Richard Newman, Matthew S. Hobson and Megan Stoakley with contributions by Don O'Meara and Lynne Gardiner Chapter 6: The Romano-British artefacts (mid-1st century AD to 5th century AD) Chapter 7: The development of the landscape from the Roman period to the present day - Richard Newman with contributions from Ed McSloy and Megan Stoakley Chapter 8: Lyde Green and the Romano-British villas of South Gloucestershire - Richard Newman Chapter 9: Appendices Appendix 1: Catalogue of Bronze Age pottery Appendix 2: Table of radiocarbon dates Appendix 3: Catalogue of decorated Samian and Samian stamps Appendix 4: Petrographic report of thin-section analyses Appendix 5: Fabric descriptions of ceramic building material Appendix 6: XRF methodology and tables Appendix 7: Methodology for analysis of the human remains Bibliography, Editors’ foreword ;
Chapter 1 Introduction – Richard Newman, Matthew S. Hobson, and Damion Churchill Chapter 2: Research objectives, methodologies and summary of results – Richard Newman, Matthew S. Hobson, and Damion Churchill Chapter 3: The development of the landscape before the 1st millennium AD – Richard Newman and Robert Young with contributions by Adrian Bailey, Kimberley Colman, Lynne Gardiner, David Jackson, Mike McElligott and Megan Stoakley Chapter 4: Dating the origins of the rural settlement at Lyde Green: a Late Iron Age enclosure system? – Richard Newman and Matthew S. Hobson with contributions by Lynne Gardiner, Mike McElligott, Ed McSloy and Megan Stoakley Chapter 5: The Romano-British period and the villa estate – Mike McElligott, Richard Newman, Matthew S. Hobson and Megan Stoakley with contributions by Don O’Meara and Lynne Gardiner Chapter 6: The Romano-British artefacts (mid-1st century AD to 5th century AD) ;
Chapter 7: The development of the landscape from the Roman period to the present day – Richard Newman with contributions from Ed McSloy and Megan Stoakley Chapter 8: Lyde Green and the Romano-British villas of South Gloucestershire – Richard Newman Chapter 9: Appendices ;
Appendix 1: Catalogue of Bronze Age pottery ;
Appendix 2: Table of radiocarbon dates ;
Appendix 3: Catalogue of decorated Samian and Samian stamps ;
Appendix 4: Petrographic report of thin-section analyses ;
Appendix 5: Fabric descriptions of ceramic building material ;
Appendix 6: XRF methodology and tables ;
Appendix 7: Methodology for analysis of the human remains ;
Bibliography
Matthew Hobson is a specialist in Roman Archaeology, with a focus on Britain and the Maghreb and has authored numerous academic publications. He has taught undergraduate and post-graduate courses at universities in the UK and in the Netherlands and directed excavations in the UK, France, Italy and North Africa. In 2017-2020 Matthew arranged and delivered educational courses in the use of satellite imagery and GIS for Heritage Managers across the Middle East and North Africa. ;
Richard Newman is a specialist in Landscape Archaeology, with a focus on Northern England and Gloucestershire. He has authored or co-authored numerous publications. Major archaeological projects include, in the 1990s, the Second Severn Crossing English Approach Roads, and more recently, the East Anglia One cable trench. He has been a visiting fellow at Newcastle University and worked at Lancaster and Bournemouth universities. His PhD was in the post-medieval landscape history of west Gloucestershire.
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- Edited by Richard Newman
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