Landscapes of Roman Britain
Gresham College Lectures
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The Roman Economy and the Holman Area
The Hayden study area was up here a few years before that we did work down in the Holman-Spaldingmore area just a few miles to the south. The Roman road running from Bruth runs up through here and what this map shows is the known distribution partly from polyplanticulae skin data of Roman coins through the landscape. So we see cultural change but it's an evolution and it'm an evolution that is largely promoted I think by the development of the road network and connections to outside rather than the traditional view that the military changed things.
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