The social distribution of Roman artefacts: The case of nail-cleaners and brooches in Britain

Journal of Roman Archaeology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 139-160

  Eckardt, Hella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 60950163191     PISSN: 10477594     EISSN: 10634304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S104775940000725X     Document Type: Article

References (99)

1. Allason-Jones, L. 2001. "Material culture and identity," in James and Millett 2001, 19-25.
2. Ambrose, T. and M. Henig 1980. "A new Roman rider-relief from Stragglethorpe, Lincolnshire," Britannia 11, 135-38.
3. Appadurai, A. (ed.) 1986. The social life of things: commodities in cultural perspective (Cambridge).
4. Bayley, J. and S. Butcher 2004. Roman brooches in Britain: a technological and typological study based on the Richborough collection (London).
5. Bishop, M. C. 1991. "Soldiers and military equipment in the towns of Roman Britain," in V. A. Maxfield and M. J. Dobson (edd.), Roman Frontier Studies 1989. Proc. XVth Int. Congress of Frontier Studies (Exeter) 21-27.
6. Böhme, A. 1972. "Die Fibeln der Kastelle Saalburg und Zugmantel," Saaljb 29, 5-37.
7. Böhme, A. 1970. "Englische Fibeln aus den Kastellen Saalburg und Zugmantel," Saaljb 27, 5-20.
8. Brewer, J. and R. Porter 1993. Consumption and the world of goods (London).
9. Brown, R. A. 1986. "The Iron Age and Romano-British settlement at Woodcock Hall, Saham Tomey, Norfolk," Britannia 17, 1-58.
10. Bulmer, W. 1938. "Dragonesque brooches and their development," AntJ 18, 146-53.
11. Burnham, B. C. and J. Wacher 1990. The 'small towns' of Roman Britain (London).
12. Butcher, S. A. 1977. "Enamels from Roman Britain," in M. R. Apted, R. Giyard-Beer and A. D. Saunders (edd.), Ancient monuments and their interpretation (London) 41-70.
13. Butcher, S. A. 1986. "The brooches," in R. Leech, "The excavation of a Romano-Celtic temple and a later cemetery on Lamyatt Beacon, Somerset," Britannia 17, 259-328.
14. Campbell, C. 1987. The Romantic ethic and the spirit of modern consumerism (Oxford).
15. Clarke, S. 1996. "Acculturation and continuity: re-assessing the significance of Romanization in the hinterlands of Gloucester and Cirencester," in Webster and Cooper 1996, 71-98.
16. Cohen, A. P. 1994. Self consciousness: an alternative anthropology of identity (London).
17. Cool, H. 2004. "Some notes on spoons and mortaria," in B. Croxford et al. (edd.), TRAC 13th conf. (Oxford) 28-35.
18. Cool, H. 2003. "An overview of the small finds from Catterick," in P. R. Wilson (ed.), Cataractonium: Roman Catterick and its hinterland. Excavations and research, 1958-1997 (CBA Res. Rep. 129, York) 24-43.
19. Cool, H. E. M and M. J. Baxter 2002. "Exploring Romano-British finds assemblages," OJA 21.4, 365-80.
20. Cool, H. E. M. and M. J. Baxter 1999. "Peeling the onion: an approach to comparing vessel glass assemblages," JRA 12, 72-100.
21. Cool, H. E. M., G. Lloyd-Morgan and A. D. Hooley 1995. Finds from the Fortress (The Archaeology of York: the small finds 17/10).
22. Cooley, A. E. (ed.), Becoming Roman, writing Latin? Literacy and epigraphy in the Roman West (JRA Suppl. 48)
23. Cooper, N. 1996. "Searching for the blank generation: consumer choice in Roman and Post-Roman Britain," in Webster and Cooper 1996, 85-98.
24. Cooper, N. J. 2000. "Rubbish counts," in S. Pearce (ed.). Researching material culture (Leicester) 75-86.
25. Craib, I. 1998. Experiencing identity (London)
26. Crummy, N. and H. Eckardt 2003. "Regional identities and technologies of the self: nail-cleaners in Roman Britain," ArchJ 160, 44-69.
27. Dant, T. 1999. Material culture in the social world (Buckingham).
28. Deetz, J. 1996. In small things forgotten: an archaeology of Early American life (expanded and rev. edn., New York).
29. Derks, T. and N. Roymans 2002. "Seal-boxes and the spread of Latin literacy in the Rhine delta," in Cooley 2002, 87-134.
30. Douglas, M. and B. Isherwood 1980. The world of goods: towards an anthropology of consumption (Harmondsworth).
31. Eckardt, H. 2002. Illuminating Roman Britain (Instrumentum 23, Montagnac).
32. Evans, J. 1987. "Graffiti: evidence of literacy and pottery use in Roman Britain," ArchJ 144, 191-204.
33. Evans, J. 1995. "Roman finds assemblages: towards an integrated approach?" in P. Rush (ed.), Theoretical Roman Archaeology: Second Conference Proceedings (Aldershot) 33-58.
34. Feachem, R. W. 1951. "Dragonesque fibulae," AntJ 31, 32-44.
35. Feachem, R. W. 1968. "Dragonesque fibulae," AntJ 48, 100-2.
36. Ferris, I. M. 1984-85. "Horse-and-Rider brooches in Britain: a new example from Rocester, Staffordshire," Trans. South Staffordshire Arch. Hist. Soc. 26, 1-10.
37. Ferris, I. 1995. "Shoppers' paradise: consumers in Roman Britain," in P. Rush (ed.), Theoretical Roman Archaeology: Second Conference Proceedings (Aldershot) 132-40.
38. Feugère, M. 1985. Les fibules en Gaule méridionale (RANarb Suppl. 12).
39. Fincham, G. 2000. "Romanisation, status and the landscape," in G. Fincham et al. (edd.), TRAC 99. 9th conf. (Oxford) 30-36.
40. Fincham, G. 2002. Landscapes of imperialism: Roman and native interaction in the East Anglian Fenland (BAR 338, Oxford).
41. Finucane, R. 1995. Miracles and pilgrims: popular beliefs in medieval England (Basingstoke).
42. Friedman, J. (ed.) 1994. Consumption and identity (Chur).
43. Gardner, A. 1999. "Military identities in late Roman Britain," OJA 18, 403-17.
44. Gechter, M. 1979. "Die Anfänge des Niedergermanischen Limes," BJb 179, 1-138.
45. Geertz, C. 1973. The interpretation of cultures: selected essays (New York).
46. Grahame, M. 1998. "Redefining Romanisation: material culture and the question of social continuity in Roman Britain," in C. Forcey et al. (edd.), TRAC 97. 7th conf. (Oxford) 1-10.
47. Hanson, W. S. and R. Conolly 2002. "Language and literacy in Roman Britain: some archaeological considerations," in Cooley 2002, 151-64.
48. Hattatt, R. 1987. Brooches of antiquity: a third selection of brooches from the author's collection (Oxford).
49. Hawkes, C. F. C. and M. R. Hull 1947. Camulodunum: first report on the excavations at Colchester, 1930-1939 (Oxford).
50. Henig, M. 1984. Religion in Roman Britain (London).
51. Henig, M. and R. A. Chambers 1984. "Two Roman bronze birds from Oxfordshire," Oxoniensia 44, 19-21.
52. Hill, J. D. 2001. "Romanisation, gender and class: recent approaches to identity in Britain and their possible consequences," in James and Millett 2001, 12-18.
53. Hingley, R. 1991. "Past, present and future: the study of the Roman period in Britain," Scottish Archaeological Review 8, 90-101.
54. Hodder, I. 1982. Symbols in action (Cambridge).
55. Hodder, I. (ed.) 1987. The archaeology of contextual meanings (Cambridge).
56. Holmes, S. 1995. "Seal-boxes from Roman London," London Archaeologist 7.15, 391-95.
57. Hull, M. R. forthcoming (G. M. Simpson, N. Crummy and B. Blance, edd.) Brooches in pre-Roman and Roman Britain (Oxford).
58. James, S. and M. Millett (edd.) 2001. Britons and Romans: advancing an archaeological agenda (CBA Res. Rep. 125, York).
59. Johns, C. 1990. "Romano-British statuette of a mounted warrior god," AntJ 70, 446-52.
60. Johns, C. 1996. "Mounted men and sitting ducks: the iconography of Romano-British plate brooches," in B. Raftery (ed.), Sites and sights of the Iron Age: essays of fieldwork and museum research presented to I. M. Stead (Oxford) 103-9.
61. Jundi, S. and J. D. Hill 1998. "Brooches and identity in first century Britain: more than meets the eye?" in C. Forcey et al. (edd.), TRAC 97. 7th conf. (Oxford) 125-37.
62. Kilbride-Jones, H. E. 1980. Celtic craftsmanship in bronze (London).
63. Laurence, R. and J. Berry 1998. Cultural identity in the Roman Empire (London).
64. Lury, C. 1996. Consumer culture (Cambridge).
65. Mackay, H. (ed.) 1997. Consumption and everyday life (Oxford).
66. Mackreth, D. F. 1981. "The brooches," in C. Partridge, Skeleton Green: a late Iron Age and Romano-British site (Britannia Monog. 2) 130-51.
67. Mackreth, D. F. 1986. "The brooches," in D. Gurney (ed.). Settlement, religion and industry on the Fen-edge. Three Romano-British sites in Norfolk (EAA Report 31) 61-67.
68. Mackreth, D. F. 1993-94. "The brooches," in A. S. Esmonde-Cleary and I. M. Ferris, "Excavations at the New Cemetery, Rocester, Staffordshire 1985-1987," Trans. South Staffordshire Arch. Hist. Soc 35, 126-34.
69. Mackreth, D. F. 1995. "Pre Roman and Roman brooches," in K. Blockley et al., Excavations in the Marlowe Car Park and surrounding areas (Archaeology of Canterbury 5) 955-82.
70. Major, H. 1993. "Copper alloy," in R. Havis, "Roman Braintree: excavations 1984-90," Essex Archaeology & History 24, 44-47.
71. Mattingly, D. J. (ed.) 1997. Dialogues in Roman imperialism (JRA Suppl. 23).
72. Mattingly, D. J. 2004. "Being Roman: expressing identity in a provincial setting," JRA 17, 5-25.
73. Meskell, L. 2001. "Archaeologies of identity," in I. Hodder (ed.), Archaeological theory today (Cambridge) 187-213.
74. Miller, D. 1987. Material culture and mass consumption (Oxford).
75. Miller, D. (ed.) 1995. Acknowledging consumption: a review of new studies (London).
76. Miller, D. 1998. Material cultures: why some things matter (London).
77. Millett, M. 1990. The Romanization of Britain: an essay in archaeological interpretation (Cambridge).
78. Olivier, A. 1988. "The brooches," in T. W. Potter and S. D. Trow, "Puckeridge-Braughing, Hertfordshire: the Ermine Street excavations 1971-72," Hertfordshire Archaeology 10, 35-53.
79. Pitts, M. 2004. "I drink, therefore I am? Pottery consumption and identity at Elms Farm, Heybridge, Essex," in B. Croxford et al. (edd.), TRAC 13th conf. (Oxford) 16-27.
80. Reece, R. 1988. My Roman Britain (Cirencester).
81. Reece, R. 1995. "Site-finds in Roman Britain," Britannia 26, 179-206.
82. Riggins, S. 1994. The socialness of things: essays on the socio-semiotics of objects (New York).
83. Riha, E. 1994. Die römischen Fibeln aus Augst und Kaiseraugst (Augst).
84. Simpson, G. and B. Blance 1998. "Do brooches have ritual associations?" in J. Bird (ed.), Form and fabric: studies in Rome's material past in honour of B. R. Hartley (Oxford) 267-79.
85. Spencer, B. 1971. "A scallop-shell ampulla from Caistor and comparable pilgrim souvenirs," Lincolnshire History & Archaeology 6, 59-66.
86. Spencer, B. 1982. "Pilgrim souvenirs from the medieval waterfront excavations at Trig Lane, London, 1974-76," TransLonMiddxArchSoc 33, 304-23.
87. Spencer, B. 1990. Salisbury Museum Medieval Catalogue, Part 2. Pilgrim souvenirs and secular badges (Salisbury).
88. Swift, E. 2000. Regionality in dress accessories in the Late Roman West (Instrumentum 11, Montagnac).
89. Tajfel, H. (ed.) 1978. Differentiation between social groups (New York).
90. Taylor, M. V. 1963. "Statuettes of horsemen and horses and other votive objects from Brigstock, Northants," AntJ 43, 264-68.
91. Terrenato, N. 1998. "The Romanization of Italy: global acculturation or cultural bricolage?" in C. Forcey et al. (edd.), TRAC 97. 7th conf. (Oxford) 20-27.
92. Veblen, T. 1970. The theory of the leisure class: an economic study of institutions (New York 1912; 2nd edn., London 1970).
93. Weatherill, L. 1988. Consumer behaviour and material culture in Britain 1660-1760 (London).
94. Webster, J. and N. Cooper (edd.) 1996. Roman imperialism: post-colonial perspectives (Leicester).
95. Webster, J. 2001. "Creolizing the Roman provinces," AJA 105, 209-25.
96. Webster, J. 1995. "Brooches," in W. Manning, J. Price and J. Webster, The Roman small finds. Report on the excavations at Usk 1965-1976 (Cardiff) 60-96.
97. Wells, P. S. 1995. "Manufactured objects and the construction of identities in late La Tène Europe," Eirene 31, 129-50.
98. Wheeler, R. E. M. 1943. Maiden Castle, Dorset (Oxford).
99. Willis, S. 1998. "Samian pottery in Britain: exploring its distribution and archaeological potential," ArchJ 155, 82-133.