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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Sofie VanhouttePublisher: Sidestone Press Imprint: Sidestone Press ISBN: 9789464260847ISBN 10: 946426084 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 30 September 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsI. Introduction I.1. The Roman military along the Channel: research questions and how the Oudenburg research can contribute to our understanding I.2. Research methodology and selection of data I.3. State of the art of the Roman military in the Channel region: an overview of the wider military context of the Oudenburg fort I.4. Historiography of the fort site of Oudenburg I.5. The general chronological framework of the fort site as outlined by the former research II. New insights into the stratigraphy, morphology and site formation processes at the Oudenburg fort II.1. Introduction to the stratigraphy and morphology research of the site II.2. The stratigraphy of the site: the study of the trench profiles II.3. The evolution of the defence system II.4. The inner building: occupation levels and their relation to the defence system II.5. Site formation processes: the evidence from the spatial distribution of material, residuality and rubbish disposal, and the value of the find assemblages III. The successive forts at Oudenburg in a changing landscape III.1. Decisive factors for the fort’s history: the marine influence and the pauvrity in hard natural rock III.2. The landscape at the time of the installation of the first fort III.3. The landscape in the 3rd century AD III.4. The landscape in the late Roman period i.e. the 4th century and later III.5. Conclusion: a changing landscape around the Oudenburg fort IV. The successive forts at Oudenburg and their related graveyards IV.1. Introduction IV.2. The mid-Roman graveyards IV.3. The late Roman graveyards IV.4. Conclusion: relationship between the successive forts and their graveyards V. Confronting stratigraphy and material culture to come to new insights into the fort’s occupation and the wider context V.1. A refined fort chronology for the Oudenburg castellum, its significance for the historic setting of the fort and within the wider historic context of the Channel region V.2. Continuity and change in supply, trade and exchange networks towards the Oudenburg fort and in the Channel region V.3. Material culture and ‘military’ identities VI. Conclusions. Change and continuity: the Oudenburg fort reflecting later Roman military development along the North Sea and Channel frontier zone VI.1. The Roman fort at Oudenburg as a key site for the Roman North Sea and Channel frontier zone VI.2. A contribution on a historic-military level VI.3. A contribution to the reconstruction of socio-cultural identities VI.4. A contribution on a socio-economic level VI.5. A contribution on a methodological level APPENDIX 1. Overview of the archaeological observations at Oudenburg yielding information on the Roman character of the sand ridge APPENDIX 2. Trenches of J. Mertens in the 1950s, 1960 and 1970s on the defence area of the Oudenburg fort. Summaries APPENDIX 3. Features identified in the 1957 trenches VI–VIa–VIb. Interpretation of the descriptions by J. Mertens APPENDIX 4. Analysis of trench profiles at the south-west corner site of the Oudenburg fort APPENDIX 5. The hearths of fort level 4 at the south-west corner site of the Oudenburg fort APPENDIX 6. Absolute chronological data available for the south-west corner site of the Oudenburg fort APPENDIX 7. Oudenburg Graveyard A. Overview of the burials, their characteristics and content APPENDIX 8. Oudenburg Graveyard C. Overview of the burials, their characteristics and content BIBLIOGRAPHYReviewsAuthor InformationSofie Vanhoutte is Heritage Researcher Archaeology at the Flanders Heritage Agency (Belgium). Since 2019 she is also teaching assistant at Ghent University. This publication is a further enlargement of her doctoral research ‘Change and Continuity at the Roman Fort at Oudenburg from the late 2nd until the early 5th century AD, with a particular focus on the evidence of the material culture and its significance within the wider context of the Roman North Sea and Channel frontier zone’, a joint PhD at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) and the University of Kent (Canterbury, UK). She defended her PhD successfully in September 2018. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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