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The Making of Britain's First Urban Landscapes: The Case of Late Iron Age and Roman Essex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2010

Martin Pitts  and
Dominic Perring
Martin Pitts
Affiliation:
University College London, mejp101@yahoo.co.uk
Dominic Perring
Affiliation:
University College London, d.perring@ucl.ac.uk
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Abstract

This paper presents preliminary research into the social and economic impact of early urban settlement in Britain, focusing on the case-study area of Late Iron Age to Roman Essex. Through fresh analysis of ceramic assemblages from Colchester and Heybridge, we describe hitherto unrecognised socio-cultural groupings and identities through subtle differences in the deposition of pottery in the generations before and after conquest. The concluding discussion concentrates on problems that we still have to address in describing the economic basis of early urban society in Britain.

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Roman BritainIron AgeurbanismRoman potteryEssexcorrespondence analysisColchesterHeybridge
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Britannia , Volume 37 , November 2006 , pp. 189 - 212
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Copyright © Martin Pitts 2006. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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