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Papers

(The TQCC of Britannia is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A Source of Confusion: New Archaeological Evidence for the Dorchester Aqueduct	4
Claudius, Elephants and Britain: Making Sense of Cassius Dio 60.21.2	4
4. NORTHERN ENGLAND	4
ENGLAND 3. HADRIAN'S WALL	3
Aura Piccioni, Römische Großbronzen am Limes: Fragmente im raetischen Raum (BAR International Series S3133). Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2023. Pp. xxx + 286, illus. isbn 9781407314990 (pbk), £84.00; 97814	3
A Biography of Power: Research and Excavations at the Iron Age Oppidum of Bagendon, Gloucestershire (1979–2017). By T. Moore. Archaeopress, Oxford, 2020. Pp. xxv + 667, illus. Price £85.	3
IV. SPOTLIGHT ON NEW RESEARCH	3
Trevor Brigham and Bruce Watson, Early Roman Waterfront Development. Excavations at Regis House, City of London, 1994–6 (MOLA Monograph 75). London: Museum of London Archaeology, 2024. Pp. 520, 190 il	3
The Social and Economic Impact of Hadrian's Wall on the Frontier Zone in Britain	3
Meaning in Millstones: Phallic Imagery on Romano-British Millstones – ADDENDUM	2
Dying Young. A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Child Health in Roman Britain. By A. Rohnbogner. BAR Publishing, Oxford, 2022. Pp. xvii + 174, illus. Price £50. isbn 9781407359595	2
The Sanctuary of Bath in the Roman Empire. By E.H. Cousins. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. x + 228, illus. Price £85.00. ISBN 9781108493192 (bound); 9781108637398 (	2
Chedworth Roman Villa. Excavations and Re-imaginings from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries. By S. Esmonde Cleary, J. Wood and E. Durham. Britannia Monograph 35. Roman Society, London, 2022	2
I. SITES EXPLORED 1. WALES	2
Correction to Redfern et al. (2017) ‘Written in Bone’: New Discoveries about the Lives of Roman Londoners, Britannia 48, 253–77	2
5. THE MIDLANDS	1
6. EAST ANGLIA	1
The Berlanga Cup. New Evidence of Hadrian’s Wall Pans Found in Hispania Citerior (Spain)	1
8. South-western counties	1
7. GREATER LONDON	1
In the Northern Cemetery of Roman London. Excavations at Spitalfields Market, London E1, 1991–2007. By M. McKenzie and C. Thomas, with N. Powers and A. Wardle. Monograph 58. MOLA, London, 2020. Pp. xv	1
Chedworth Roman Villa. Excavations and Re-imaginings from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries. By S. Esmonde Cleary, J. Wood and E. Durham. Britannia Monograph 35. Roman Society, London, 2022	1
Proceedings of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies 2024–2025	1
Life in Roman and Medieval Leicester. Excavations in the Town's North-east Quarter, 1958–2006. By R. Buckley, N.J. Cooper and M. Morris. Leicester Archaeology monograph 26. University of Leicester, Br	1
Simon Webb, Exploring Roman London. Barnsley: Pen & Sword History, 2023. Pp. 224, illus. isbn 9781399058490 (pbk). £16.99. - Andrew Tibbs, A Shor	1

9.2. SOUTHERN COUNTIES (EAST)	1
Roman Rural Settlement in Wales and the Marches: Approaches to Settlement and Material Culture Through Big Data. By L. Reynolds. BAR British series B670: Archaeology of Roman Britain Vol. 6. BAR Publi	0
A New Corpus of Roman Coins from England and Wales. An Overview of the Evidence and Analysis of the Data	0
Meaning in Millstones: Phallic Imagery on Romano-British Millstones	0
IV. SPOTLIGHT ON NEW RESEARCH	0
II. Finds Reported under the Portable Antiquities Scheme	0
Michael J. Jones, Digging Lincoln: An Archaeological Memoir. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2024. Pp. xv + 279, illus. isbn 9781803278476 (pbk), £25.00; 97818	0
Silchester Revealed. The Iron Age and Roman Town of Calleva. By M. Fulford. Windgather Press, Oxford and Philadelphia, 2021. Pp. xviii + 206, illus. Price £16.99 (pbk); £34.99 (hbk). isbn 9	0
5. THE MIDLANDS	0
Approaching Connectivity and Community Through Rural Crafts in Early Roman Cambridgeshire: The Case of the Lower Ouse Valley Potteries	0
4. Northern England	0
Drawings of Roman Mosaics in the Topham Collection, Eton College Library. By P. Witts. BAR international series 3064. BAR Publishing, Oxford, 2021. Pp. xvi + 193, illus. Price £48. isbn 978	0
Eleanor Ghey (Ed.), Recent Discoveries of Tetrarchic Hoards from Roman Britain and Their Wider Context (British Museum Research Publications 236). London: British Museum, 2024. Pp. 402, illus.	0
Intramural Human Remains from Roman Towns in Britain: A Case Study from Late Iron Age and Roman Silchester	0
2. SCOTLAND	0
Life, Death and Rubbish Disposal in Roman Norton, North Yorkshire: Excavations at Brooklyn House 2015–16. By Janet Phillips and Pete Wilson with contributions by Tony Benfield and 20 others. Archaeopr	0
Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani. Great Britain. Vol. 1, Fasc. 11. The Hinterland of Hadrian's Wall and Derbyshire. By Lindsay Allason-Jones. Oxford University Press/British Academy, Oxford, 2023. Pp. x	0
H.E.M. Cool, Blue/Green Glass Bottles from Roman Britain (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 113). Oxford: Archaeopress, 2024. Pp. xi + 253, illus. isbn	0
BRI volume 55 Cover and Front matter	0
5. THE MIDLANDS	0
Editorial	0
6. EAST ANGLIA	0
Whetstones in Roman Britain: Character, Distribution, Provenance and Industries	0
3. Hadrian’s Wall	0
Brading Roman Villa: Evidence of a Late Roman Massacre?	0
Further Details on the Roman Figure with a Circular Socket from West Keal, Lincolnshire*	0
8. SOUTH-WESTERN COUNTIES	0
ENGLAND 3. HADRIAN'S WALL	0
BRI volume 56 Cover and Front matter	0
Heating Londinium : Dating Relief-patterned Box-flue Tiles and Other Wall Cavity Traditions in Roman London’s Baths and Heated Buildings	0
Editorial	0
9.2. Southern counties (East)	0
Hadrian's Wall and Border Studies: Problems and Prospects	0
Dispatches from the Home Front: The Anaglypha Panels in Rome	0
The Body Mine: A Review of Human Remains within Romano-British Well and Shaft Deposits and Evidence for Multi-stage Mortuary Ritual in First-century a.d. Surrey	0
Intellectual Property in Developer-Funded Archaeology Projects in Britain from the Roman Period	0
Wroxeter: Ashes under Uricon. A Cultural and Social History of the Roman City. By R. White. Archaeopress, Oxford, 2022. Pp. xii + 239, illus. Price £26 (pbk); £14.99 (PDF eBook). isbn 97818	0
2. SCOTLAND	0
The Use of Celtic Coinage in Early Roman London: A Re-interpretation of Bloomberg Wax Tablet 31	0
The Management of a Territory for Surplus Production: The Example of Fanum Martis (Nord, Northern France)	0
Silchester Insula IX: The Claudio-Neronian Occupation of the Iron Age Oppidum (The Early Roman Occupation at Silchester Insula IX). By M. Fulford, A. Clarke, E. Durham and N. Pankhurst. Britannia Mono	0
The Antonine Wall in Falkirk District. By Geoff B. Bailey with nine other contributors. Falkirk Local History Society, Falkirk, 2021. Pp. iv + 600, illus. Price £18 (hbk). isbn 978188382988	0
Rob Collins, Ian Kille and Kathleen O’Donnell, Fabric of the Frontier: Prospection, Use and Re-Use of Stone from Hadrian’s Wall. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2023. Pp xiv + 168, illus.	0
Glass Bottles and Military Production	0
Themed Section: Hadrian's Progress through the North-Western Provinces in a.d. 121–122	0
Proceedings of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies 2021–2022	0
The Earliest Known Purposefully Collected Ichthyosaurian Fossil: A Vertebral Centrum from a Second-century a.d . Roman Pit in Colchester, Essex	0
How Do We Make the River ‘Roman’? Changing Depositional Patterns in the Middle Thames Valley	0
Editorial	0
7. Greater London	0

BRI volume 54 Cover and Back matter	0
Roman ‘Grand Strategy’ in Action? Claudius and the Annexation of Britain and Thrace	0
III. Inscriptions	0
A Figurine Wearing a Sleeveless Coat from Sandy, Bedfordshire	0
William S. Hanson, Richard E. Jones and Nick Hannon, Exploring the Antonine Wall with Terrestrial Remote Sensing. Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2024. Pp. viii + 243, illus.	0
A History of the Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 1949–2022: A Retrospective to Mark the 25th Congress in Nijmegen. By D.J. Breeze, T. Ivleva, R.H. Jones and A. Thiel. Archaeopress, Oxford, 2022. Pp	0
A Late Antique Decorated Casket and Jewellery from the Roman Villa at Fordham, Essex	0
BRI volume 56 Cover and Back matter	0
Visitor Experiences and Audiences for the Roman Frontiers: Developing Good Practice in Presenting World Heritage. Edited by N. Mills. BAR International Series S3066. BAR Publishing, Oxford, 2021. Pp.	0
9.2. SOUTHERN COUNTIES (EAST)	0
A Possible Roman Camp on the Wirral Peninsula	0
New Perspectives on Child and Infant Burial in Britain (100 b.c.e.–c.e. 200)	0
The Implications of LiDAR for Our Understanding of the Building of the Antonine Wall: A Reconsideration	0
The Colchester Vase: A Master Potter at Work	0
Potters or Cooks? Changes in the Later Iron Age/Early Romano-British Ceramic Industry at Silchester	0
9.1. Southern counties (West)	0
BRI volume 55 Cover and Back matter	0
I. Sites Explored 1. Wales	0
Slavery on the Northern Frontier: A Stylus Tablet from Vindolanda	0
Change and Continuity at the Roman Coastal Fort at Oudenburg from the Late 2nd until the Early 5th Century AD. By Sofie Vanhoutte. Relicta monografieën 19. Sidestone Press, Leiden, 2023. Three volumes	0
Conflict in the Lake District: The Attack on Ambleside Roman Fort	0
III. INSCRIPTIONS	0
London's Roman Tools: Craft, Agriculture and Experience in an Ancient City. By Owen Humphreys. BAR British series 663/Archaeology of Roman Britain Volume 3, BAR Publishing, Oxford, 2021 Pp. 492, illus	0
Editorial	0
IV. SPOTLIGHT ON NEW RESEARCH	0
A Scato-sexual Message: The Secundinus Stone with Phallus from Vindolanda	0
Hadrian in Germany and the Construction of the Limes Palisade in a.d. 120	0
Proceedings of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies 2022–2023	0
BRI volume 53 Cover and Back matter	0
The Material Fall of Roman Britain 300–525 CE. By R. Fleming. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2021. Pp. 303, illus. Price £36.00. isbn 9780812252446.	0
Alex Mullen (Ed.), Social Factors in the Latinization of the Roman West (Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. xiv + 363, illus. isb	0
8. SOUTH-WESTERN COUNTIES	0
A Fifth-century Purse Assemblage with Coins and Hackbronze from Oudenburg Reconsidered	0
What Happened Next? Hadrian’s Wall, the expeditio Britannica and the Fate of the Ninth Legion	0
Mosaics in Roman Britain. By A. Beeson. Amberley Publishing, Stroud, 2022. Pp. 96, illus. Price £15.99. isbn 9781445689883 (print), 9781445689890 (ebook).	0
I. SITES EXPLORED 1. WALES	0
Nina Crummy and Richard Henry, Double-sided Antler and Bone Combs in Late Roman Britain. Stylistic Groups, Context and Status (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 116). Oxford: Archaeopress. Pp. vi + 136,	0
Bridge over Troubled Water: The Roman Finds from the River Tees at Piercebridge in Context. By H. Eckardt and P.J. Walton. Britannia Monograph 34. Roman Society, London, 2021. Pp. xii + 316, illus. Pr	0
Assessing Defence in Late Antique North-eastern Gaul and the Germanic Provinces c. a.d . 250–500: Biases, Distribution and	0
Elizabeth Shaw, Roman Feet and Shoes: The Cultural Significance of Feet, Footwear, and Their Representations in the North-Western Provinces (BAR International Series S3186.) Oxford: BAR Publishing, 20	0
Crystal Park, Bottisham: The Construction Materials of a Roman Villa Complex – A Cambridgeshire Case Study	0
The Windridge FarmGlandesRevisited: Clues to Conquest?	0
The Antonine Wall Distance Slabs: A Critical Overview	0
Claudius and the Elephants for Britain (Cassius Dio 60.21.2)	0
5. The Midlands	0
4. NORTHERN ENGLAND	0
The Romano-British Villa and Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Eccles, Kent. By N. Stoodley and S. Cosh. Archaeopress, Oxford, 2021. Pp. 260, illus. Price £45. isbn 9781789695878.	0
II. FINDS REPORTED UNDER THE PORTABLE ANTIQUITIES SCHEME	0
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF ROMAN STUDIES 2023–2024	0
4. NORTHERN ENGLAND	0
Conquering the Ocean. By Richard Hingley. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2022. Pp. ix + 312, illus. Price £22.99. isbn 9780190937416.	0
Unit Levies after the Batavian Revolt and the Conquest of Northern Britannia	0
9.2. SOUTHERN COUNTIES (EAST)	0
Where Are the Claudian Forts? A Review of the Evidence in South-eastern Britain, and an Alternative View of the Invasion Period	0
The Teynham Triton and Its Significance to the Funerary Architecture of Roman Kent and Beyond	0
Imaging Hadrian in Britain between Coinage and Sculpture: A New Digital Approach to the Study of Roman Imperial Portraiture	0
Troy Story: The Ketton Mosaic, Aeschylus, and Greek Mythography in Late Roman Britain	0
BRI volume 54 Cover and Front matter	0
The Writings on the Wall: From Greek Alphabet to Painter’s Signature, The Inscriptions on the Roman Wall-paintings of the Liberty, Southwark, London	0
7. GREATER LONDON	0
9.1. SOUTHERN COUNTIES (WEST)	0
Richard Abdy, Legion: Life in the Roman Army. London: British Museum Press, 2024. Pp. 320, illus. isbn 9780714122939 (hbk), £40.00; 9780714122946 (pb	0
IV. Spotlight on New Research	0
II. FINDS REPORTED UNDER THE PORTABLE ANTIQUITIES SCHEME	0
9.1. SOUTHERN COUNTIES (WEST)	0
Writing in Roman Britain and Continental Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Styli Found in London	0
Rereading the Secundinus Stone from Vindolanda	0
Manuel Fernández-Götz and Nico Roymans, Archaeology of the Roman Conquest: Tracing the Legions, Reclaiming the Conquered (Cambridge Elements: The Archaeology of Europe). Cambridge: Cambridge Universit	0
Fraser Hunter, Annemarie Kaufmann-Heinimann and Kenneth Painter (Eds), The Late Roman Silver Treasure from Traprain Law. Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland, 2022. Pp. xviii + 766, illus.	0
Evidence for the Repurposing of Civic Tile-stamp Dies at Gloucester	0
The Roman Baths at Wallsend. By N. Hodgson. Arbeia Society Roman Archaeological Studies 2. Arbeia Society and Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums, South Shields, 2020. Pp. x + 91, illus. Price £18.	0
Estimating the ‘Missing’ Houses of Silchester	0
Hadrian's Frontiers in Northern Britain	0
Roman Religion in the Danubian Provinces: Space Sacralisation and Religious Communication During the Principate (1st–3rd Century AD). By C. Szabó. Oxbow, Oxford & Philadelphia, 2022. Pp. xiii + 29	0
Mihailescu-Bîrliba Lucrețiu and Wolfgang Spickermann. Roman Army and Local Society in the Limes Provinces of the Roman Empire: Papers of an International Conference, Iași, June 4th–6th, 2018. Rahden,	0
BRI volume 53 Cover and Front matter	0
An Egyptian at York?	0
Spoon-Shaped Objects with Weapon Terminals from Western Britain	0
2. SCOTLAND	0
Tom Brindle, Mark Brett and Jonathan Hart, Evolution of a Romano-British Courtyard Villa: Excavations at the former Dings Crusaders Rugby Ground, Stoke Gifford 2016–2018 (Monograph 15). Cirencester: C	0

7. GREATER LONDON	0
III. INSCRIPTIONS	0
An Altar from Marton, Lincolnshire, and a Soldier of Leg. XI Claudia in Britain	0
Beaded Rims on Silver Plate Vessels in Late Roman Britain and Beyond	0
Healthcare in Roman Colchester	0
ENGLAND 3. HADRIAN'S WALL	0
An Iron Age Bloomery Iron-smelting Industry on the Mid Kent Downs	0
Roman County Durham: The Eastern Hinterland of Hadrian's Wall. By D.J.P. Mason. Durham County Council, Durham, 2021. Pp. 557, illus. Price £30. isbn 9781907445712.	0
What's in the pots? Identifying Possible Extensification in Roman Britain Through Analysis of Organic Residues in Pottery	0
The Hadrian's Wall Military Way: A Frontier Road Explored. By D. Armstrong. Armatura Press, Pewsey, 2021. Pp. xiv + 90, illus. Price £15. isbn 9781910238202.	0
I. SITES EXPLORED 1. WALES	0
6. East Anglia	0
The ‘Saxon Shore’ Reconsidered	0
London in the Roman World. By D. Perring. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2022. Pp. xix + 573, illus. Price £40. isbn 9780198789000.	0
Contextualising Counterfeits: Roman Coin Moulds in Britain and the Channel Islands	0
6. EAST ANGLIA	0
Gladiators at Roman Colchester: Re-Interpreting the Colchester Vase	0
Objects in Miniature: A Copper-Alloy Beneficiarius Spear-Shaped Mount from Inveresk	0
9.1. SOUTHERN COUNTIES (WEST)	0
50 Finds from Somerset: Objects from The Portable Antiquities Scheme. By L. Burnett. Amberley Press, Stroud, 2023. Pp. 96, illus. Price £15.99. isbn 9781445662367.	0
Values and Material Culture in Rosemary Sutcliff's Roman Britain Stories	0
Polyaenus (Strat. 8.23.5) and Caesar's British Elephant	0
Agriculture and Population: Occupation and Burials in the Extramural Area of Margidunum on the Fosse Way in Nottinghamshire	0
A Ceramic Mould from Vindolanda: Craft and Industry along the Roman Frontier	0
Hadrian and Britain: The Civil Zone	0
Roman Period Statuettes in the Netherlands and Beyond: Representation and Ritual Use in Context. By C. Veen. Amsterdam archaeological studies 30, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2023. Pp. xiii	0
Excavations Outside the Roman fort at Croy Hill on the Antonine Wall, 1975–8. By W.S. Hanson, with 20 contributors. Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports 98. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edi	0
Establishing a Chronology for Roman and Post-Roman Stanwick, Northamptonshire	0
Villas, Sanctuaries and Settlements in the Romano-British Countryside. Edited by M. Henig, G. Soffe, K. Adcock and A. King. Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 95. Archaeopress, Oxford, 2022. Pp. xii + 368	0
II. FINDS REPORTED UNDER THE PORTABLE ANTIQUITIES SCHEME	0
8. SOUTH-WESTERN COUNTIES	0
III. INSCRIPTIONS	0
Intestinal Parasitic Infection in Roman Britain: Integrating New Evidence from Roman London	0
Fowl Play: A British ‘Fatal Charade’ at Brading Roman Villa	0
Hadrian's Wall and its Continental Hinterland	0
Pervasive Ritual at Wroxeter: The Evidence of the Buried Ceramics from the Bushe-Fox Excavations 1912–14	0
Roman Frontier Archaeology – in Britain and Beyond: Papers in Honour of Paul Bidwell Presented on the Occasion of the 30th Annual Conference of the Arbeia Society. Edited by N. Hodgson and B. Griffith	0
2. Scotland	0
Correction to Manley et al. (2024) A Source of Confusion: New Archaeological Evidence for the Dorchester Aqueduct, Britannia	0