Roman Coins Struck in Britain

Agriculture in Roman Britain

I F we consider that agriculture employed a majority of the population in non-industrial societies and is still man's staple occupation, we must ad-mit that the agriculture of Roman Britain has concerned archaeologists and historians much less than it should, for on its vicissitudes depended to no small degree the well-being and decline of the province. The existence of Roman 'villas' was first...

Arthritis in Roman Britain.

The pattern of arthritis in Roman Britain was investigated by examining the skeletons of 416 adults from the Roman cemetery at Poundbury Camp near Dorchester, Dorset. The mean height of the people was not much less than that of the current British population, and the prevalence of right handedness was similar to our own. There was a high prevalence of osteoarthritis for such a relatively young ...

A case of dyschondrosteosis from Roman Britain.

Universit at Augsburg Classiication of Late Roman Bronze Coins Using an Object-oriented Database Classiication of Late Roman Bronze Coins Using an Object-oriented Database

The combination of digital libraries and applications from humanities is an important emerging eld that still faces great challenges. In this paper we investigate the science of numismatics and analyse how to digitize current manual practice for the classiication of ancient coins from the 4th century A.C. Our contributions are twofold. From the application's point of view we develop an improved...

"Sede in tuo loco": a fourth-century uterine phylactery in Latin from Roman Britain.