SILCHESTER 2002: An Archaeological Round-up |
The Archaeology: The end of the sixth season of excavation in Insula IX (season 2002) saw the completion of 36 weeks of excavation of Silchester insula IX. The excavation is now concerned with the early-to-mid Roman (AD50 – 250) archaeology of the block, where evidence is emerging of a very different town to that of the late Roman period. The achievements of the project during the 2002 season were:
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Archaeological Objectives for
2003: It is intended that we will further clarify the 2nd century AD occupation of the site, as well as taking the opportunity of beginning to understand the layout of the 1st century early Roman town.
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SILCHESTER 2002/3: Behind the
scenes Post excavation: Work is proceeding towards the completion of the parallel electronic and printed publication (in monograph form) of the Late and Post-Roman occupation. Amanda Clarke is currently disentangling the stratigraphy of the site for the last 6 seasons, wrestling with the hundreds of context numbers and plans, and producing a sequence for the late Roman occupation of the site. Klare Tootell, Silchester's Project Assistant, has been entering all the context records, plans, ‘small finds’ and ‘bulk’ finds data on to the Integrated Archaeological Database. Draft specialist reports on the late Roman material have now for the most part been completed and the task of integrating the artefactual and biological data with the stratigraphic sequence will soon begin. Dissemination: Conferences: Publications: A.Clarke and M. Fulford, ‘The Excavation of Insula IX,
Silchester: the first five years of the ‘Town Life’ project,
1997-2001.’ Britannia 33 (2002), 129-66. Awards: British Archaeological Awards (November 2002): The Victorian web page (reported to AHRB in 2001) was awarded ‘Highly Commended’. Objectives for 2003: Completion of the publication of The Late Roman Occupation, both conventional
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Amanda Clarke and Michael Fulford, January
2003. |
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