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Rural Settlement in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain: a Review of Three Recent Archaeological Fieldwork Reports and their Wider Implications

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Pegswood Moor, Morpeth: a Later Iron Age and Romano-British Farmstead Settlement. By J.Proctor. Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd Monograph 11. Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd, London, 2009. Pp. xii + 115, illus, maps, plans. Price: £14.95. isbn 978 0 95630 540 4.
Farm and Forge: Late Iron Age and Romano-British Farmsteads at Marsh Leys, Kempston, Bedfordshire. By M.Luke and T.Preece. East Anglian Archaeology Monograph 138. Albion Archaeology, Bedford, 2011. Pp. xvi + 198, figs 120. Price: £18.00. isbn 978 0 95565 463 3.
Archaeology of the Upper Witham Valley: Prehistoric Visitors, Iron Age Settlement and a Romano-British Landscape Dominated by a New Villa. By T.Jolliffe. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 524. Archaeopress, Oxford, 2010. Pp. viii + 212, illus, map. Price: £45.00. isbn 978 1 40730 737 4.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2013

Adam Rogers
Adam Rogers*
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University of Leicester [email protected]
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All three well-produced reports, two excavation and one fieldwalking and magnetometry, deal with rural settlement in Iron Age and Roman Britain. They demonstrate the huge amount of information that can be gathered from such work with implications not only for our understanding of their local area but also many themes relevant to Iron Age and Roman Britain as a whole, as well as beyond. It is useful to review these reports not just in relation to the immense value that each site brings but also in terms of current knowledge and approaches taken to studying rural settlement.

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Britannia , Volume 44 , November 2013 , pp. 397 - 400
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2013. Published by The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies 

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