Overview

Before the 1970s, discoveries of Roman material in Guernsey consisted of a few chance finds of coins, plus a handful of sherds of samian pottery from the harbour and from prehistoric megaliths. Since the 1980s, however, two large-scale excavations in the town of St Peter Port, plus accumulated evidence from rescue excavations elsewhere in the island and from underwater discoveries, has demonstrated that there was significant Roman occupation which lasted for several centuries. This volume presents reports of the excavations carried out at La Plaiderie (1983–85) and the Bonded Store (1996–2005) in St Peter Port, together with a gazetteer of all Roman finds recorded from almost one hundred other sites in Guernsey and Herm. It includes a detailed study of the pottery recovered from the two town sites, which demonstrates that Guernsey was a significant port-of-call on the Atlantic trade route and along the length of the Channel. Finds included pottery, including samian, glass, intaglios, metalworking debris, a range of small finds and environmental data. The volume concludes with a gazetteer of Roman sites and finds on Guernsey and Herm.

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Well-illustrated, well-organized, and well-produced, this volume presents a wide range of material clearly and effectively. It represents a great step forward in understanding the Roman presence in the Channel Islands, and its authors are to be congratulated on their achievement. * International Journal of Nautical Archaeology *

Author Information

Dr Heather Sebire is the Senior Historic Property Curator at English Heritage for the West of England. She was the curator for Archaeology at Guernsey Museum from 1996 to 2003 and then States Archaeologist in Guernsey from 2003 until 2007. She has published many articles and papers on Channel Islands archaeology. Dr Philip de Jersey has been the States of Guernsey Archaeologist since 2008. From 1992 to 2007 he was employed at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, working primarily on the Iron Age and in particular on Iron Age coinage, on which he has published several books and more than one hundred articles. Dr Jason Monaghan studied at the London Institute of Archaeology, before working for the Guernsey Maritime Trust (1985–89) and as the Roman pottery specialist for the York Archaeological Trust (1989–93). He is the author of a number of novels, spent a decade working in financial compliance, and since 2006 has been Museums Director then Head of Heritage Services for the States of Guernsey.

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