Embracing the Provinces

Tatiana Ivleva is a research fellow at Newcastle University. She studied archaeology at the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow, Russia, and Leiden University, the Netherlands, where she received a PhD in 2012 with a thesis entitled "Britons Abroad: the Mobility of Britons and the Circulation of British-made Objects in the Roman Empire". She has published extensively in edited volumes and international journals on Roman diaspora, migration, and mobility, the Roman army and provincial material culture. Jasper de Bruin is a lecturer at the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University, the Netherlands. His main research interest focuses on the archaeology of the Roman period, especially communities and exchange mechanisms in the western part of the Netherlands. Mark Driessen is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University, the Netherlands. His main research interests are the military logistics, infrastructure and trade in the Roman period.

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Contributors

Carol van Driel-Murray: an appreciation

David J. Breeze

 

PART 1: IT’S A MAN’S WORLD

1. Two pieces of cavalry helmet from the province of Gelderland

Annelies Koster

2. “If you go down to the woods today…” A rare item of Roman horse gear from the Dutch–German border

Clive Bridger with a contribution by Frank Willer

3. Ethnic identity and archaeology: Case studies from the “national numeri” of imperial Rome’s armies

Ian Haynes

4. Transfers between units in the Roman army

David J. Breeze

 

PART 2: GENDER MATTERS

5. Ghost train: the (almost) invisible dependants of the Roman garrison at Dura-Europos, Syria

Simon James

6. Farming the frontier? Mixed occupants and occupations at a Roman outpost in the Rhine delta, c. AD 180–230

Erik P. Graafstal

7. Tracing women in Roman numismatics

Fleur Kemmers

8. Multi-functionality of a Romano-British glass bangle: Between theory and practice

Tatiana Ivleva

9. A Germanic woman’s hairpin from the Roman Naval Fleet Base Velsen I (NL): A story of lost and found again

Michael Erdrich

10. Veiling in Pannonia

Ursula Rothe

 

PART 3: WHAT’S COOKING? MILITARY AND CIVILIAN FOODSTUFF

11. Meals and the Roman military

Penelope M. Allison

12. Food for soldiers: Farm deliveries from Germania inferior in the second and third centuries AD

Laura I. Kooistra

13. Nice Meating: The canabae legionis livestock market at Nijmegen revisited

Mark Driessen

14. Cauldrons and feasting in Oppidum Batavorum on the eve of the Batavian Revolt

Harry van Enckevort

 

PART 4: A LONG WALK FROM ROME: THE LEATHERWORK AT THE EMPIRE’S EDGES

15. Footwear and fashion on the fringe: stamps and decoration on leather and shoes from Vindolanda (1993–2016)

Elizabeth M. Greene

16. The shoe is on the other foot? The introduction of footwear as an example for changes in the rural community of the Cananefates

Jasper de Bruin

17. Another piece in the jigsaw: the leather from a Roman well at Tollgate Farm, Staffordshire, UK

Quita Mould

 

PART 5: FILLING THE GAPS: INVESTIGATING THE UNEXPLORED AREAS IN PROVINCIAL STUDIES

18. “Putting some fl esh on the bones”: Bringing Roman London to life

Jenny Hall

19. Pillow talk

Lindsay Allason-Jones

20. Stylising the functional: Wooden hair combs from Vindolanda

Barbara Birley

A bibliography of the works of Carol van Driel-Murray