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Jackson, Robin (Robin Andrew)

Title Ariconium, Herefordshire : an Iron Age settlement and Romano-British "small town" / Robin Jackson ; with contributions from Hilary Cool [and others] ; illustrated by Carolyn Hunt, Steve Rigby and Laura Templeton.

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Oxford : Oxbow Books ; Oakville, Conn. : [Distributed by] David Brown Book Co., 2012.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe JSTOR Open Ebooks	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	1 online resource (x, 258 pages :) : illustrations, maps
	text txt rdacontent
	computer c rdamedia
	online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Section 1. Background -- section 2. Archaeological investigations : summary and analysis -- section 3. Erosion and deposition history -- section 4. The finds and environmental evidence -- section 5. Archaeological synthesis -- section 6. Management, erosion and landuse -- section 7. Concluding remarks.
Summary	The Roman 'small town' of Ariconium in southern Herefordshire has long been known as an important iron production centre but has remained very poorly understood. The town is suggested to have developed from a late Iron Age Dobunnic tribal centre, which owed its evident status and wide range of contacts to control of the production and distribution of Forest of Dean iron. Rapid expansion during the second half of the 1st century AD indicates that the local population was able to articulate rapidly with the economic opportunities the Roman conquest brought. The town developed as a typical small.
Subject	Iron age -- England -- Herefordshire.
	Romans -- Great Britain -- Antiquities.
	Herefordshire (England) -- Antiquities.
	Great Britain -- History -- Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D. -- Antiquities.
	HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
	Antiquities
	Iron age
	Romans -- Antiquities
	England -- Herefordshire https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRtcmggYFh9kgbJfwp4Y
	Great Britain https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP
Chronological Term	55 B.C.-449 A.D
Genre/Form	History
Added Author	Cool, H. E. M.
	Hunt, Carolyn (Illustrator)
	Rigby, Steve.
	Templeton, Laura (Illustrator)
Other Form:	Print version: Jackson, Robin (Robin Andrew). Ariconium, Herefordshire. Oxford : Oxbow Books ; Oakville, Conn. : [Distributed by] David Brown Book Co., 2012 (DLC) 2012011376
ISBN	9781842179352 (electronic bk.)
	1842179357 (electronic bk.)
	9781842174494
Standard No.	CHNEW 000610640
	AU@ 000056870562