Lyde Green Roman Villa, Emersons Green, South Gloucestershire

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.

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 ;



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