Catuvellaunia and Rome: Economic and Political Relations during the Final Decades Pre-conquest

Contents

Contents

Preliminary notes for readers

Keynote evidence

Summary

Section 1: Arable systems

Celtic fields: nature, distribution, and environmental background

Extensive arable blocs (EABs): a model for larger scale early agri-management

Division of the land: linear boundaries, and their field-systems

The agronomics of grain production during the Iron Age: a model-system

Section 2: Climatic considerations

Section 3: Hillforts from southern Britain: assessment of basic properties and distribution

Section 4: Tribal lineage and interaction

Section 5: Greater Catuvellaunia

Section 6: Tribal emblems on Celtic coinage from southern Britain

Section 7: Personal portraiture on Celtic coinage from southern Britain

Section 8: Kingship: the evidence from Celtic coins in southern Britain

Section 9: Militarism: changing projection: the evidence from Celtic coins in southern Britain

Section 10: Camulodunum: capital and major port of the Catuvellauni

Section 11: Oppida: Britain

Section 12: Oppida: Gaul

Section 13: Roman grain-consumption

Section 14: Southeastern Britain: Continental imports to southern Britain during the final Iron Age

Section 15: Ships and boats of later Iron Age, and earlier Roman date: evidence from northwestern Europe, and the Atlantic seaboard

Section 16: The northwestern coastal Atlantic: topography, navigation, and early resource-led voyaging

Section 17: Resources: trade in metals as motivation for development of major sea-routes from the Mediterranean to the northwestern Atlantic

Section 18: The Tayside Militarised Zone [TMZ]: logistics of bulk-supply to the Flavian salient in southeastern-coastal Caledonia

Section 19: The northern frontier-zone of Gaul along the Rhine: its initial development, and military requirements

Section 20: Grain-supply: problems and solutions

Section 21: Political considerations

Section 22: Cunobelinos: surviving the historical narrative

Section 23: Celtic coinage: Britain and Gaul: examples

Section 24: Literary sources

Section 25: Bibliography

About the Author

Alistair Marshall has carried out extensive excavation and prospection on prehistoric sites in southern Britain, with a strong interest in the latest Iron Age and early development of the Roman province.