Characterising urban space : a case study from Insula IX, Silchester, Hants, UK
This thesis seeks to develop our current understanding and knowledge gaps concerning the use of urban space and life-histories of buildings in Romano-British towns with specific reference to Roman Silchester. A micromorphological approach examines the use of space within a series of early (c. 70-80 AD - c. 125-150 AD) and mid (c. 125-50 AD - 200 AD) Roman earthen and timber-framed buildings from Insula IX, Silchester, Hants, UK. Anthropogenic sediments have complex formation processes and in order to further understand those, comparative data is used from occupation deposits within structures from experimental sites at Butser Ancient Farm, Hants, UK and Lejre Historical and Archaeological Research Centre, Denmark. Complementary micromorphological examination at both experimental and archaeological sites has produced key observations for the furthering identifications of formation processes in the archaeological record. At these temperate sites micromorphological characteristics attributed to trampling both as a formation process and as post-depositional alteration have been identified in experimental deposits after the removal of the roof in the Longbridge Deverill roundhouse, Butser, and in archaeological
Banerjea, Rowena
Characterising urban space : a case study from Insula IX, Silchester, Hants, UK. This thesis seeks to develop our current understanding and knowledge gaps concerning the use of urban space and life-histories of buildings in Romano-British towns with specific reference to Roman Silchester. A micromorphological approach examines the use of space within a series of early (c. 70-80 AD - c. 125-150 AD) and mid (c. 125-50 AD - 200 AD) Roman earthen and timber-framed buildings from Insula IX, Silchester, Hants, UK. Anthropogenic sediments have complex formation processes and in order to further understand those, comparative data is used from occupation deposits within structures from experimental sites at Butser Ancient Farm, Hants, UK and Lejre Historical and Archaeological Research Centre, Denmark. Complementary micromorphological examination at both experimental and archaeological sites has produced key observations for the furthering identifications of formation processes in the archaeological record. At these temperate sites micromorphological characteristics attributed to trampling both as a formation process and as post-depositional alteration have been identified in experimental deposits after the removal of the roof in the Longbridge Deverill roundhouse, Butser, and in archaeological
characterising urban_space case_study seek_develop current_knowledge gap concern use urban_space life histories building romano_british town specific_reference roman micromorphological examines use_space within series early mid roman earthen timber framed building anthropogenic sediment complex formation_process order comparative data_use occupation deposit_within structure experimental site ancient farm historical archaeological centre denmark complementary micromorphological examination experimental_archaeological site produce key observation further identification formation_process archaeological_record temperate site micromorphological characteristic attribute formation_process post_depositional alteration identify experimental deposit removal roundhouse archaeological