Finding the Fifth Century: A Late Fourth- and Early Fifth-Century Pottery Fabric from South-East Dorset

Britannia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 293-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Gerrard
Keyword(s):  
Fifth Century ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
Late Roman Period ◽  
Architectural Tradition ◽  
Made In ◽  
Late Roman

ABSTRACTThis paper describes a type of pottery made in the same region as Dorset Black Burnished Ware that can be shown to be current during the late fourth and early fifth centuries. This pottery — here named South-East Dorset Orange Wiped Ware — can be used as a diagnostic artefact to identify sites and features of the very late Roman period in Dorset. It also appears to be associated with a new architectural tradition typified by the ‘sunken featured buildings’ present at the late and post-Roman site of Poundbury.

The Roman Frontier in Germany: an Archaeological Survey

1969 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 144-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Schönberger
Keyword(s):  
Recent Literature ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
The Past ◽  
Late Roman Period ◽  
The Military ◽  
Present Summary ◽  
Made In ◽  
Late Roman

My intention is to base the present summary on the discoveries which have been made in the field during the past twenty years, but obviously within the limits of the space at my disposal I can only indicate the main outlines. My main concern is with the provinces of Germania Superior and Raetia, but I shall also refer from time to time to the results of recent research in Germania Inferior. The main Map B (opposite p. 176) is supplemented by Map A (fig. 16), which shows the military sites of the Augustan-Tiberian period, and by Map C (fig. 23), which indicates the sites of the late-Roman period. Each map is supported by its own bibliographical list; these should be consulted when specific footnote-references are lacking in the text. These lists and footnotes, wherever possible, give references only to the most recent literature and have been reduced to a minimum. For the General Works to be consulted, and for the Abbreviations used, see lists below (pp. 196 ff.).

Economy and Power in Late Roman Britain

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Gerrard
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Century ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
Roman Britain ◽  
Agricultural Resources ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Surplus Extraction ◽  
Late Roman Period ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Late Roman

This chapter reviews the relationship between power and economics in fourth-century Britain. It argues that the Roman past has often been intuitively understood as rational and that its economics can be easily characterized as ‘proto-capitalist’. The Roman period was, however, both complex and irrational. Agricultural production was the powerhouse of the economy and provided the foundations of both power and status during the late Roman period. The focus on the agricultural economy allows the structures of power – tax, tribute and surplus extraction – and their transformation to be studied. During the fifth century the imperial superstructure collapsed, but the continued local control of agricultural resources provides a mechanism for how the late Roman world was transformed into early medieval societies.

The lunula pendants from the cemetery of Frontovoe 3 from the Late Roman Period in the South-Western Crimea

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-136
Author(s):  
Anna Mastykova ◽  
Alexey Sviridov
Keyword(s):  
Fifth Century ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
The South ◽  
Crimean Peninsula ◽  
Western Area ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
Late Roman Period ◽  
Question Form ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Late Roman

AbstractThe flat cemetery of Frontovoe 3 was discovered in 2018 by a team of the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Nakhimovskii district of modern Sevastopol, in the south-western area of the Crimean Peninsula. The site comprising 328 graves was excavated completely. The cemetery appeared ca. late first century AD and ceased to exist in the late fourth or early fifth century AD. The cemetery showed expressive spatial structure and contained eloquent assemblages with abundant grave goods allowing us to determine its chronological zones. This paper addresses the finds of silver crescent-moon-shaped pendants from graves 13 and 94. Similar ornaments occurred in burial assemblages in the Crimea and the northern Dagestan, Kalmykia, Lower Don area, and also in Sarmatian graves in the Great Hungarian Plain. The lunula pendants in question form a chronological reference point for the Pontic-Danubian antiquities in the Late Roman Period.

scholarly journals Glass medallion in the shape of a lion’s head mask

2011 ◽  
pp. 277-285
Author(s):  
Renata Kucharczyk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Roman Period ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Islamic Period ◽  
Late Roman Period ◽  
Early Islamic Period ◽  
Early Islamic ◽  
Made In ◽  
Late Roman

A glass appliqué in the shape a lion's head mask is an example of applied decoration found on late Roman glasses, which may have actually seen extended use as a keepsake or amulet, long after the vessel itself, presumably a globular or conical handled jug or bulbous flagon, had been broken. The medallion in high relief was found during Polish excavations on Kom el-Dikka in 2007, in a cut from the early Islamic period containing fill of mixed date, from late Roman to early Islamic. The paper considers parallels for the piece, both published and unpublished, from excavations in Egypt as well as museum collections worldwide. All are considered to be made in Egyptian workshops and representing traditional “Egyptian” themes, although the idea of decorating glass vessels with applied medallions was hardly a novel idea in the late Roman period and was a continuation of a tradition from Imperial times, but with a different range of motifs. Glass masks of this kind appeared also on other vessels, like glass cinerary urns, for example, and continued to be applied as decoration on late Sassanian and early Islamic products.

scholarly journals Crypt with Third-Century Coins in the Cemetery of Opushki

2020 ◽  
pp. 247-278
Author(s):  
Igor Khrapunov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Archaeological Methods ◽  
Late Roman Period ◽  
Archaeological Cultures ◽  
Made In ◽  
Grave Goods ◽  
Late Roman

The cemetery of Opushki is located about 15 km east of Simferopol, in the Crimean foothills. In the process of excavations, carried out since 2003, a variety of funerary constructions belonging to different archaeological cultures have been discovered. The crypt researched in the current article contained four burials, which were especially interesting because of the find of six coins inside of them. The excavation above the burial chamber of this vault discovered a childs burial accompanied with varied grave goods, similarly to those made in the crypt. The burials discussed in the present study were made in the second half of the third century AD. The second half of the 3rd century AD was the period represented in Crimea by the smallest number of complexes in comparison with the previous and the following periods. Varied grave goods from the crypt and the childs grave greatly expand our notion of the material culture of those people who inhabited the Crimean foothills in that half of the century, which is difficult to be discovered by archaeological methods. Furthermore, the crypt No. 133 belongs to a big group of grave constructions which were widely spread in Crimea in the Late Roman period. Their distinctive feature is a short dromos. Initially, the latter crypts appeared in the first half of the 3rd century AD. However, several of them as well belong to the second half of the 3rd century AD. In the fourth century AD, the majority of burials were made in such crypts close to the Crimean foothills. Many researchers interpret specific construction of these crypts as an evidence of the penetration into Crimea of the forefathers of mediaeval North Caucasian Alans. The material culture of the population of the Crimean foothills in the Late Roman period could be interpreted as eclectic, developed under the influence from various factors. Its sources were ancient and the Sarmatian cultures. Besides, the research showed that there were found some local hand-made vessels, analogies of which were never found outside of the peninsula. Some of the artefacts had penetrated to Crimea area from the areas populated by Germanic tribes.

Plyshchan microregion of settlements of the Late Roman period in the Upper Don region

2020 ◽  
pp. 60-71
Author(s):  
Grigory L. Zemtsov ◽  
◽  
Dmitry V. Sarychev ◽  
Vladimir O. Goncharov ◽  
Ekaterina V. Fabritsius ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Roman Period ◽  
Late Roman Period ◽  
Late Roman

Noble shape, humble metals. Bronze and silver shield-head and snake-head rings of Roman era Scandinavia

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Rundkvist
Keyword(s):  
Roman Period ◽  
Distribution Area ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Late Roman Period ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The Right ◽  
Core Production ◽  
Late Roman

Abstract Gold snake-head rings are a famous and much studied artefact group of the Late Roman Period in Scandinavia. But before and during their heyday, women in the same areas were occasionally buried with shield-head and snake-head rings made of silver or bronze. This paper surveys the material and traces the origin of these designs from the Wielbark Culture in coastal Poland about AD 100. The early shield-head rings probably arrived across the Baltic with the women who wore them. After the AD 210s, non-gold rings are a feature of the gold snake-head rings’ core production and distribution area on the Baltic Islands and south-east mainland Sweden. The women who wore them were not tribal royalty, but enjoyed comfortable economic means and had the right to display this top-level symbol in more affordable materials.

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