Roman
"Tickets for the dinner dance are 21/-": community archaeology in Southampton 1958-2008
Anna Welch (Secretary of the Southampton Museums Archaeology Society and Southampton Archaeology Unit, UK)
Southampton Council: 50 years of supporting urban archaeology
Andy Russel (Southampton Archaeology Unit, UK)
Southampton Council appointed its first archaeologist in 1958, and excavations in the Roman, Saxon and Medieval towns have been conducted ever since. This paper will look at the ups and downs of archaeology in one urban area over that period, following the changing fashions of what got excavated, how it was excavated, who dug it up, and how the City’s past was used and abused.
Not wilderness, not not wilderness: The construction of liminal space in a rural context in late Iron Age/early Roman Britain
Martyn Allen (University of Nottingham, UK)
The destruction of sculpture in Roman Britain: Re-evaluating the action and its significance
Ben Croxford (Cotswold Archaeology)
What have archaeologists ever done for us? A detailed exploration of archaeology in the community of Southampton
Duncan H. Brown (Southampton City Council; duncan.brown@southampton.gov.uk)and Andy Russel (Southampton City Council; andy.russel@southampton.gov.uk)
